Vector Pascal

Vector Pascal

University: University of Glasgow

Sector(s): Information & Communications Technologies, Creative Industries

About Opportunity:

A high-level programming language for vector processing.

Vector Pascal is an extended version of the popular programming language Pascal which has been designed to make efficient use of the multimedia instruction sets of recent microprocessors from AMD, Intel and other manufacturers. It has a SIMD (Single Instruction stream, Multiple Data stream) compiler which supports parallel vector operations, loop unrolling and common sub-expression removal.

Other features include:

• Unicode support. New operator extensions to support SIMD programming.
• Type system extensions to support scientific and image processing.
• Many of the features of ISO Extended Pascal.
• Turbo Pascal features including Units, Strings and Turbo Pascal style file operations.

Key Benefits:

• Provides a productive and efficient program development environment for SIMD programming.
• Compiler implemented in Java to ease portability between operating systems.

Applications:

• The development of software programs for computationally intensive applications such as computer games, scientific computing and image processing.

IP Status:

The compiler is available under an Open Source Software license. The software can be downloaded from the SourceForge web site.

Easy Access Documents:

Easy Access Licence Agreement Exclusive
Easy Access Licence Agreement Non-Exclusive

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