48-bit Computing - Images

Images

See also: Deep color

In digital images, 48 bits per pixel, or 16 bits per each color channel (red, green and blue), is used for accurate processing. Such images do not look much better than 24-bit images, but the existence of more shades between colors (65,536 as opposed to 256) means that more operations can be performed on the image without risk of noticeable banding or posterization.

CPU technologies
Architecture
  • Harvard
  • Modified Harvard
  • von Neumann
  • Dataflow
  • Comparison
Instruction set
  • CISC
  • EDGE
  • EPIC
  • MISC
  • OISC
  • RISC
  • VLIW
  • NISC
  • ZISC
Word size
  • 1-bit
  • 4-bit
  • 8-bit
  • 9-bit
  • 10-bit
  • 12-bit
  • 15-bit
  • 16-bit
  • 18-bit
  • 22-bit
  • 24-bit
  • 25-bit
  • 26-bit
  • 27-bit
  • 31-bit
  • 32-bit
  • 33-bit
  • 34-bit
  • 36-bit
  • 39-bit
  • 40-bit
  • 48-bit
  • 50-bit
  • 60-bit
  • 64-bit
  • 128-bit
  • 256-bit
  • variable
Pipeline
  • Instruction pipelining
  • In-order & out-of-order execution
  • Branch predictor
  • Register renaming
  • Speculative execution
  • Hazards
  • Bubble
Parallel level
  • Bit
  • Instruction (Scalar
  • Superscalar)
  • Data (Vector)
  • Task
Threads
  • Multithreading
  • Simultaneous multithreading
  • Hyper-threading
  • Super-threading
Flynn's taxonomy
  • SISD
  • SIMD
  • MISD
  • MIMD (SPMD)
Types
  • Digital signal processor
  • Microcontroller
  • System on a chip
  • Cellular
Components
  • Arithmetic logic unit
  • Barrel shifter
  • Floating-point unit
  • Back-side bus
  • Multiplexer
  • Demultiplexer
  • Registers
  • Memory management unit
  • Translation lookaside buffer
  • Cache
  • Register file
  • Microcode
  • Control unit
  • Clock rate
Power management
  • APM
  • ACPI
  • Dynamic frequency scaling
  • Dynamic voltage scaling
  • Clock gating

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