Programming the Cell Processor For Games,

"Scarpino illuminates each of the Cell's most important technical innovations, introduces the commands needed to access its power, and walks you through the entire development process, including compiling, linking, debugging, and simulating code. He also offers start-to-finish case studies for three especially important Cell applications: games, graphics, and scientific computing. The Cell platform offers unprecedented potential, and this book will help you make the most of it."--BOOK JACKET.

Matthew Scarpino lives in the San Francisco Bay area and develops software to interface embedded devices. He holds a masters in electrical engineering and has spent more than a decade in software development. His experience encompasses computing clusters, digital signal processors, microcontrollers, and field programmable gate arrays, but he loves programming the Cell processor most of all.

Foreword	p. xv
Preface	p. xvii
Introducing the Cell Processor	p. 1
The Software Development Tools	p. 13
The Cell Software Development Kit (SDK)	p. 15
Building Applications for the Cell Processor	p. 35
Debugging and Simulating Applications	p. 53
The Cell SDK Integrated Development Environment	p. 83
The PowerPC Processor Element (PPE)	p. 97
Introducing the PowerPC Processor Unit (PPU)	p. 99
The SPE Runtime Management Library (libspe)	p. 125
SIMD Programming on the PPU, Part 1: Vector Libraries and Functions	p. 153
SIMD Programming on the PPU, Part 2: Methods and Algorithms	p. 195
Part III	p. 217
Introducing the Synergistic Processor Unit (SPU)	p. 219
SIMD Programming on the SPU	p. 239
SPU Communication, Part 1: Direct Memory Access (DMA)	p. 285
SPU Communication, Part 2: Events, Signals, and Mailboxes	p. 317
Advanced SPU Topics: Overlays, Software Caching, and SPU Isolation	p. 345
SPU Assembly Language	p. 367
Mathematics and Computation	p. 409
Chapter 16	p. 411
Chapter 17	p. 439
Chapter 18	p. 463
Graphics and Games	p. 489
Programming the Frame Buffer: Linux and the Play Station 3	p. 491
OpenGL on the Cell: Gallium and Mesa	p. 503
Building Games with Ogre3D	p. 529
Packaging Graphics with COLLADA	p. 559
Epilogue	p. 581
Appendices	p. 583
Understanding ELF Files	p. 585
Updating the PS3 Add-On Packages and Installing a New Linux Kernel	p. 609
The Accelerated Library Framework (ALF)	p. 617
SPU Instruction Set Reference	p. 649
A Brief Introduction to Tcl	p. 661
Index	p. 669
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