Download IBM Full-System Simulator for Cell Broadband Engine Processor 3.0

The developers at IBM recently released a new version of their Full-System Simulator for the Cell Broadband Engine Processor, which has been given 3.0 as the version number. This simulator is part of the multicore acceleration sdk from IBM and consists of many different tools that can help you develop applications for hardware built around the Cell Broadband Engine architecture. The Full-System Simulator is supported on i386, x86-64, and PowerPC machines with a Fedora Core 6 or Fedora 7 installation. The short list of changes is as follows:

Release 3.0 provides the following enhancements:

• a new fast simulation mode using just-in-time translation that improves simulation speed by a factor of 10 or more on 64-bit host platforms
• improved performance modeling for the PPE and memory subsystems, particularly for configurations with two Cell Broadband Engine processors
• new and enhanced tools for identifying programming errors, such as DMA command errors and SPU stack overflow, in Cell Broadband Engine applications