What is Intel IPP?
Intel Integrated Performance Primitives (IPP) are:
• A low-level software layer, common across server, desktop, and handheld processors and
Windows* and Linux* operating systems, including embedded systems
• A wide variety of image, audio, video, and speech capabilities available across Intel
microprocessor platforms.
• Highly optimized processor-specific code
• A standard platform for application software developers with great application
performance on Intel’s current and future microprocessors.
• More than two thousand functions for signal and image processing, and all functions are
available to programmers through the single API.
The Intel IPP is very useful and provides extremely optimized functions working on many
platforms.
Why “Primitives”?
They are primitives because the functions:
• Perform basic operations
• Do one thing
• Do not use any complex data structure or I/O operations
• Have low overhead
• Have well-defined interfaces and predictable behavior
Why “Integrated”?
The primitives developed for different platforms use the same API, allowing easy porting of
applications to different platforms. The primitives can be used in every library and every
application on Intel processors, operating on Windows and Linux platforms.
Why “Performance”?
The primitives are highly optimized for Intel processors. Several tricks described below can help
realize the potential performance of IPP functions to the full extent.
Why should I use the IPP?
The IPP is intended to make the development of cross-platform code with high-performance on
multiple systems a possibility.
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