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rapso
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Machine Code doc

Post by rapso »

could someone point me to some documentation of the PPU and SPU machine-code? I can't find any for the cell, although it's easy to find it for other cpus. or is it not public yet? I was seeking on the IBM-pages as well, but...

Thx in advance!
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Post by IronPeter »

Are you interested in spus ABI?

http://www-01.ibm.com/chips/techlib/tec ... on_1.7.pdf

Anyway, the binary code layout is very simple, IBM cell SDK contains "assembler unit test", you can refer it.
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Post by Mihawk »

Or are you interested in SPU Instruction Set Architecture? ;)
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Post by mc »

And the PPU is just a PPC64 core, so you can read the regular PEM64:
http://www-01.ibm.com/chips/techlib/tec ... DD004D3797
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Post by ldesnogu »

And for the sake of completeness the PowerPC Architecture Book
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/eserv ... guide.html

Now you have thousands of pages to read, have fun :)
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