PLX

What is PLX?

PLX is a small, general-purpose, subword-parallel instruction set architecture (ISA) designed at Princeton University, Department of Electrical Engineering. PLX is designed to be a simple yet high-performance ISA for multimedia information processing.

PLX History

  • In Fall 2001, design goals and architecture for PLX were specified by Prof. Ruby B. Lee of Princeton University.

Evolution of the PLX Architecture

There are several versions of the PLX architecture and the toolset. The documentation for each of these is provided below.

PLX Documentation and Downloads

PLX 1.2

This is the current development version of PLX and therefore it is not yet publicly available. PLX developers can login to access these documents with their download password. Please fill out this form and email to rblee@princeton.edu to obtain a password.

PLX Publications

PLX architecture and tools have been used in some of the papers published by PALMS. These are listed below: