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1/* Intel SIMD (SSE2) implementations of Viterbi ACS butterflies
2   for 64-state (k=7) convolutional code
3   Copyright 2003 Phil Karn, KA9Q
4   This code may be used under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
5
6   void update_viterbi27_blk_sse2(struct v27 *vp,unsigned char syms[],int nbits) ;
7*/
8	# SSE2 (128-bit integer SIMD) version
9	# Requires Pentium 4 or better
10
11	# These are offsets into struct v27, defined in viterbi27.h
12	.set DP,128
13	.set OLDMETRICS,132
14	.set NEWMETRICS,136
15	.text
16	.global update_viterbi27_blk_sse2,Branchtab27_sse2
17	.type update_viterbi27_blk_sse2,@function
18	.align 16
19
20update_viterbi27_blk_sse2:
21	pushl %ebp
22	movl %esp,%ebp
23	pushl %esi
24	pushl %edi
25	pushl %edx
26	pushl %ebx
27
28	movl 8(%ebp),%edx	# edx = vp
29	testl %edx,%edx
30	jnz  0f
31	movl -1,%eax
32	jmp  err
330:	movl OLDMETRICS(%edx),%esi	# esi -> old metrics
34	movl NEWMETRICS(%edx),%edi	# edi -> new metrics
35	movl DP(%edx),%edx	# edx -> decisions
36
371:	movl 16(%ebp),%eax	# eax = nbits
38	decl %eax
39	jl   2f			# passed zero, we're done
40	movl %eax,16(%ebp)
41
42	xorl %eax,%eax
43	movl 12(%ebp),%ebx	# ebx = syms
44	movb (%ebx),%al
45	movd %eax,%xmm6		# xmm6[0] = first symbol
46	movb 1(%ebx),%al
47	movd %eax,%xmm5		# xmm5[0] = second symbol
48	addl $2,%ebx
49	movl %ebx,12(%ebp)
50
51	punpcklbw %xmm6,%xmm6	# xmm6[1] = xmm6[0]
52	punpcklbw %xmm5,%xmm5
53	pshuflw $0,%xmm6,%xmm6	# copy low word to low 3
54	pshuflw $0,%xmm5,%xmm5
55	punpcklqdq %xmm6,%xmm6  # propagate to all 16
56	punpcklqdq %xmm5,%xmm5
57	# xmm6 now contains first symbol in each byte, xmm5 the second
58
59	movdqa thirtyones,%xmm7
60
61	# each invocation of this macro does 16 butterflies in parallel
62	.MACRO butterfly GROUP
63	# compute branch metrics
64	movdqa Branchtab27_sse2+(16*\GROUP),%xmm4
65	movdqa Branchtab27_sse2+32+(16*\GROUP),%xmm3
66	pxor %xmm6,%xmm4
67	pxor %xmm5,%xmm3
68
69	# compute 5-bit branch metric in xmm4 by adding the individual symbol metrics
70	# This is okay for this
71	# code because the worst-case metric spread (at high Eb/No) is only 120,
72	# well within the range of our unsigned 8-bit path metrics, and even within
73	# the range of signed 8-bit path metrics
74	pavgb %xmm3,%xmm4
75	psrlw $3,%xmm4
76
77	pand %xmm7,%xmm4
78
79	movdqa (16*\GROUP)(%esi),%xmm0	# Incoming path metric, high bit = 0
80	movdqa ((16*\GROUP)+32)(%esi),%xmm3	# Incoming path metric, high bit = 1
81	movdqa %xmm0,%xmm2
82	movdqa %xmm3,%xmm1
83	paddusb %xmm4,%xmm0	# note use of saturating arithmetic
84	paddusb %xmm4,%xmm3	# this shouldn't be necessary, but why not?
85
86	# negate branch metrics
87	pxor %xmm7,%xmm4
88	paddusb %xmm4,%xmm1
89	paddusb %xmm4,%xmm2
90
91	# Find survivors, leave in mm0,2
92	pminub %xmm1,%xmm0
93	pminub %xmm3,%xmm2
94	# get decisions, leave in mm1,3
95	pcmpeqb %xmm0,%xmm1
96	pcmpeqb %xmm2,%xmm3
97
98	# interleave and store new branch metrics in mm0,2
99	movdqa %xmm0,%xmm4
100	punpckhbw %xmm2,%xmm0	# interleave second 16 new metrics
101	punpcklbw %xmm2,%xmm4	# interleave first 16 new metrics
102	movdqa %xmm0,(32*\GROUP+16)(%edi)
103	movdqa %xmm4,(32*\GROUP)(%edi)
104
105	# interleave decisions & store
106	movdqa %xmm1,%xmm4
107	punpckhbw %xmm3,%xmm1
108	punpcklbw %xmm3,%xmm4
109	# work around bug in gas due to Intel doc error
110	.byte 0x66,0x0f,0xd7,0xd9	# pmovmskb %xmm1,%ebx
111	shll $16,%ebx
112	.byte 0x66,0x0f,0xd7,0xc4	# pmovmskb %xmm4,%eax
113	orl %eax,%ebx
114	movl %ebx,(4*\GROUP)(%edx)
115	.endm
116
117	# invoke macro 2 times for a total of 32 butterflies
118	butterfly GROUP=0
119	butterfly GROUP=1
120
121	addl $8,%edx		# bump decision pointer
122
123	# See if we have to normalize. This requires an explanation. We don't want
124	# our path metrics to exceed 255 on the *next* iteration. Since the
125	# largest branch metric is 30, that means we don't want any to exceed 225
126	# on *this* iteration. Rather than look them all, we just pick an arbitrary one
127	# (the first) and see if it exceeds 225-120=105, where 120 is the experimentally-
128	# determined worst-case metric spread for this code and branch metrics in the range 0-30.
129
130	# This is extremely conservative, and empirical testing at a variety of Eb/Nos might
131	# show that a higher threshold could be used without affecting BER performance
132	movl (%edi),%eax	# extract first output metric
133	andl $255,%eax
134	cmp $105,%eax
135	jle done		# No, no need to normalize
136
137	# Normalize by finding smallest metric and subtracting it
138	# from all metrics. We can't just pick an arbitrary small constant because
139	# the minimum metric might be zero!
140	movdqa (%edi),%xmm0
141	movdqa %xmm0,%xmm4
142	movdqa 16(%edi),%xmm1
143	pminub %xmm1,%xmm4
144	movdqa 32(%edi),%xmm2
145	pminub %xmm2,%xmm4
146	movdqa 48(%edi),%xmm3
147	pminub %xmm3,%xmm4
148
149	# crunch down to single lowest metric
150	movdqa %xmm4,%xmm5
151	psrldq $8,%xmm5     # the count to psrldq is bytes, not bits!
152	pminub %xmm5,%xmm4
153	movdqa %xmm4,%xmm5
154	psrlq $32,%xmm5
155	pminub %xmm5,%xmm4
156	movdqa %xmm4,%xmm5
157	psrlq $16,%xmm5
158	pminub %xmm5,%xmm4
159	movdqa %xmm4,%xmm5
160	psrlq $8,%xmm5
161	pminub %xmm5,%xmm4	# now in lowest byte of %xmm4
162
163	punpcklbw %xmm4,%xmm4	# lowest 2 bytes
164	pshuflw $0,%xmm4,%xmm4  # lowest 8 bytes
165	punpcklqdq %xmm4,%xmm4	# all 16 bytes
166
167	# xmm4 now contains lowest metric in all 16 bytes
168	# subtract it from every output metric
169	psubusb %xmm4,%xmm0
170	psubusb %xmm4,%xmm1
171	psubusb %xmm4,%xmm2
172	psubusb %xmm4,%xmm3
173	movdqa %xmm0,(%edi)
174	movdqa %xmm1,16(%edi)
175	movdqa %xmm2,32(%edi)
176	movdqa %xmm3,48(%edi)
177
178done:
179	# swap metrics
180	movl %esi,%eax
181	movl %edi,%esi
182	movl %eax,%edi
183	jmp 1b
184
1852:	movl 8(%ebp),%ebx	# ebx = vp
186	# stash metric pointers
187	movl %esi,OLDMETRICS(%ebx)
188	movl %edi,NEWMETRICS(%ebx)
189	movl %edx,DP(%ebx)	# stash incremented value of vp->dp
190	xorl %eax,%eax
191err:	popl %ebx
192	popl %edx
193	popl %edi
194	popl %esi
195	popl %ebp
196	ret
197
198	.data
199	.align 16
200
201thirtyones:
202	.byte 31,31,31,31,31,31,31,31,31,31,31,31,31,31,31,31
203