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An introduction to the IDE for the Cell Broadband Engine SDK

Building a sample project with the Eclipse-based Cell BE development environment

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Level: Introductory

Sean Curry (seancurry.ut@gmail.com), Software Engineer, IBM

26 Oct 2006
Updated 30 Mar 2007

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This introductory walk-through, updated for the Cell Broadband Engine™ (Cell BE) SDK V2.1, explores the Cell BE processor IDE and offers a click-for-click lesson on how to construct a simple project.

In this tutorial

  • An introduction to some of the main features of the Cell IDE for Eclipse

  • Step-by-step instructions on how to create, build, and run POWER™ Processing Unit (PPU)- and Synergistic Processor Unit (SPU)-managed make projects

Prerequisites

Before starting this tutorial you should download and install the:


This tutorial assumes only minimal familiarity with the Eclipse IDE, although familiarity with the IDE, and with the concepts of the Cell BE architecture, will be beneficial.

If you wish to know more about the Cell BE architecture, or about development for it, check out the materials in the Cell Broadband Engine resource center on developerWorks.


System requirements

Linux® - Fedora Core 6



Formats

html, pdf


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