Neungsoo Park and Viktor K. Prasanna (Proc. International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Vol. 2, pp. II-1205-II-1208, 2001)
Cache Conscious Walsh-Hadamard Transform
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The Walsh-Hadamard Transform (WHT) is an important tool in signal processing because of its simplicity. One major problem with the existing packages is their poor scalability to larger problems. In computing large size WHT, non-unit stride accesses result in poor cache performance leading to severe degradation in performance. In this paper, we develop an efficient cache friendly technique that drastically enhances the performance of large size WHT. In our approach, data reorganization is performed between computation stages to reduce cache pollution. We develop an efficient search algorithm to determine the optimal factorization tree depending on the problem size and stride access in the decomposition. We have developed a package and demonstrated improved performance. For example, on Alpha 21264 and MIPS R10000, our technique results in upto 180% performance improvement over the state-of-the-art package. The proposed optimization is applicable to other signal transforms and is portable across various platforms.

Keywords:
Walsh-Hadamard transform

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Self-adaptable Walsh-Hadamard transform library