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How to efficiently sum 4 x 8bit integers with ARM or NEON

Shervin Emami
Note: This was originally posted on 17th September 2010 at http://forums.arm.com

Hi,

I am trying to write an ASM function to shrink an 8-bit greyscale image by 4, so I need to get the sum of 4 bytes very quickly. From what I have read, NEON needs atleast 32-bit integers and VFP is for floats, so it looks like I should just stick with ARM (or Thumb-2) instructions.

But I'm just a beginner so I'm wondering if there is a more efficient method of summing 4 consecutive bytes than convert each byte to a 32bit int and then sum them (and then shift right to get the average).

Its for a Cortex-A8 (ARMv7-A), and the data is aligned to 32 bytes or whatever I want.

Cheers,
Shervin Emami
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  • Arm Employee Badge
    Note: This was originally posted on 27th September 2010 at http://forums.arm.com

    I can't figure out how to specify the NEON data alignment


    I believe GCC uses ":" rather than "@", as "@" is the GCC comment character.

    And one question about your code: You specify @128 alignment for 2 of your instructions and @64 for the other 2 loads & store. The timing diagram says that @64 is the max alignment it can take advantage of in VLD1.8, so is there a reason you wrote @128 for some of your instructions and not others?


    I wasn't assuming any particular processor was in use, I simply provided the largest alignment that could be guaranteed for the given multiple of 480 bytes assuming the source image started of 128byte aligned.

    hth
    s.
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  • Arm Employee Badge
    Note: This was originally posted on 27th September 2010 at http://forums.arm.com

    I can't figure out how to specify the NEON data alignment


    I believe GCC uses ":" rather than "@", as "@" is the GCC comment character.

    And one question about your code: You specify @128 alignment for 2 of your instructions and @64 for the other 2 loads & store. The timing diagram says that @64 is the max alignment it can take advantage of in VLD1.8, so is there a reason you wrote @128 for some of your instructions and not others?


    I wasn't assuming any particular processor was in use, I simply provided the largest alignment that could be guaranteed for the given multiple of 480 bytes assuming the source image started of 128byte aligned.

    hth
    s.
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