Intel® Integrated Performance Primitives

Optimized for Performance

These software building blocks are highly optimized using Intel® Streaming SIMD Extensions 2, Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions 2 (Intel® AVX2), and Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions 512 (Intel® AVX-512) instruction sets.

Plug In and Go

With these ready-to-use, royalty-free functions, you will:

• Gain more time to develop new application features
• Reduce development, debug, and maintenance time
• Ensure the code you write today will run optimally on future generations of Intel® processors

A Comprehensive Set of Primitives

Access thousands of optimized functions covering frequently used fundamental algorithms, including those for creating:

• Digital media
• Enterprise data
• Embedded communications
• Scientific, technical, and security applications

The library includes more than 2,500 primitives for image processing, 1,300 for signal processing, 500 for computer vision, and 300 for cryptography.

Optimize for great CPU performance in current and future Intel® platforms. With each instruction set upgrade, a new implementation layer is added. Previous implementations work as before, but functions that can benefit from new hardware capabilities are updated and validated before new architecture is released.

Unlock increased performance that's delivered with new hardware. Start using new CPU capabilities right away instead of interrupting development cycles for additional optimizations. In most cases, the performance boost is automatic. For other cases, you only need to recompile.

For complete information, see the release notes.

Image Processing

Take visual information and convert it into manageable, usable data for further analysis and decision-making. These image-processing applications use Intel IPP:

• Healthcare (medical imaging)
• Computer vision
• E-commerce (visual search)
• Digital surveillance
• Biometric identification
• Factory machine vision
• Advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) for autonomous driving
• Printing and printers
• Image recognition and enhancement
• Remote equipment operation
• Gesture recognition
• Illegal image recognition
• Optical correction

Data Compression

Reduce the number of bits needed to store or transmit data. Intel IPP highly optimizes these common compression standards:

• Lempel-Ziv-Storer-Szymanski (LZSS)
• LZ77 (zlib)
• Lempel-Ziv-Oberhumer (LZO)
• Bzip2
• LZ4
• ZFP

Achieve significant performance gains with plug and play functions on applications such as these:

• Internet portal data center
• Data storage centers
• Databases
• Enterprise data management

Signal Processing

Enable information generation, transformation, and interpretation. Pull meaning from broad sources of data, helping modern communications that include:

• Voice recognition
• Biotechnology
• Wearable technology
• Hearing aids
• Speech synthesis

Optimize commonly used signal-processing functions for a wide variety of Intel architectures, including: 

• Discrete Fourier transform (DFT)
• Fast Fourier transforms (FFT)
• Convolution
• Filtering
• Statistics

These signal-processing applications use Intel IPP:

• Telecommunications
• Energy
• Ultrasound machines
• Medical scanning
• Record, enhance, and playback audio and non-audio signals
• Echo cancellation: filter, equalize, and emphasis
• Simulation of environment or acoustics
• Games with sophisticated audio content or effect
• Interfaces for voice-controlled personal assistants

Cryptography

Protect against cyberattacks and intrusion in the field of autonomous, self-driving cars with functions for: 

• Security analysis
• Threat intelligence
• Mobile security
• Cloud security
• IoT security
• Data integrity and authentication hash (SHA, MD5, SM3)
• Public key cryptography (RSA, ECC, HMAC, CMAC)
• Secure data transfer, such as:
  • Symmetric algorithms
  • Advanced Encryption Standard (AES)
  • Triple DES (TDES)
  • SMS4
  • Steam ciphers

The cryptography library is available as an open-source library. GitHub

These security applications use Intel IPP:

• Telecommunications
• Transaction security and cybersecurity
• Smart card and wallet interfaces
• ID verification
• Copy protection
• Electronic signature
• Advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS)