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IBM Full-System Simulator for the Cell Broadband Engine Processor

A full-system simulation infrastructure and tools for the Cell Broadband Engine processor.


Date Posted: November 9, 2005
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Platform requirements

The Full-System Simulator for Cell Broadband Engine™ Processor functions as a part of the IBM SDK for Multicore Acceleration. Requirements for the IBM SDK for Multicore Acceleration are provided in the Installation Guide.

Operating system: This version of the simulator is supported on Red Hat Fedora Core 6 and Fedora 7. The simulator is also known to work on related platforms that provide equivalent versions of system libraries.

Hardware: For the simulator, the minimum amount of available memory must equal twice the amount of simulated memory. For example, if the simulator is simulating a system with 512 MB of memory, the host system must have at least 1 GB of memory available for use by the simulator.

Software: IBM SDK for Multicore Acceleration.

Installation instructions

Download and install the IBM SDK for Multicore Acceleration.

For further information about installing the Cell Broadband Engine SDK, please see the Installation Guide.


Cell Broadband Engine and Cell/B.E. are trademarks of Sony Computer Entertainment, Inc., in the United States, other countries, or both and are used under license therefrom.
Other company, product, or service names may be trademarks or service marks of others.

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Related technologies

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For topics:
analysis, Cell Broadband Engine Architecture (CBEA), Cell Broadband Engine SDK, debugging, modeling, optimization, performance, POWER, powerPC, scheduling, Simulation, trace


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