This is a unique programming guide for the Cell Broadband Engine. It demonstrates a large number of real-life programs to identify and solve problems in a broad range of subjects. There are numerous diagrams, mnemonics, tables, and charts.
Practical Programming in the Cell Broadband Engine offers a unique programming guide for the Cell Broadband Engine, demonstrating a large number of real-life programs to identify and solve problems in engineering, logic design, VLSI CAD, number-theory, graph-theory, computational geometry, image processing, and other subjects.
Key features include:
- Numerous diagrams, mnemonics, tables, charts, code samples for making program development on the CBE as accessible as possible
- Comprehensive reading list for introductory material to the subject matter
- A website providing all source codes and sample-data for examples presented in this text.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introducing the Cell Broadband Engine. - The Power Processing Element (PPE). - The Synergistic Processing Element. - Element Interconnect Bus. - Direct Memory Access (DMA). - Programming the Cell Broadband Engine. - Foundations for Program Development on CBE. - The development environment. - Hello World. - An Overview of the SDK. - Basic Algorithms. - Graph Theory on the CBEA. - Alternative methods for parallel programming on SPE. - Computational Mathematics on the CBEA. - Vector Graphics on SPU. - Optimizing SPU Programs. - Case Studies. - Line-of-sight Computation. - Structure Determination using PDF. - Polytope Enumeration. - Synthetic Aperture Radar. - VLSI Design Automation. - Floorplanning: VLSI and other Applications. - VLSI Placement. - Power Estimation for VLSI. - Concluding Remarks.
