IBM™ Cell Broadband Engine™
Software Development Kit V3.1 for Multicore Acceleration

The following documents are included in the SDK installation package. Use the list below to open documents you installed locally. Note that if you chose not to install some files, you will not be able to access them from this page.

Additional documentation is available in the IBM Systems Information Center. The information center provides you with a single site where you can access product documentation for IBM systems hardware, operating systems, and server software. Through a consistent framework, you can efficiently find information and personalize your access. The IBM Systems Information Center is at http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/systems

There, you will find the most up-to-date SDK information as well as topics including BladeCenter QS21 and QS22, XL C/C++ and Fortran compilers, and other technical publications.

• Installation Guide
• Programmer's Guide
• Programming Tutorial V3.1
• Cell/B.E. Programming Handbook including IBM® PowerXCell^TM 8i
• Security V3.1 Installation and User's Guide (prototype)

• C/C++ Language Extensions for Cell/B.E. Architecture V2.6
• IDE Tutorial and User's Guide
• Performance Tools Reference
• SPU Application Binary Interface Specification V1.9
• SIMD Math Library Specification
• Cell/B.E. Linux Reference Implementation Application Binary Interface Specification V1.2
• SPU Assembly Language Specification V1.7

• ALF Programmer's Guide and API Reference
• BLAS Programmer's Guide and API Reference
• DACS Programmer's Guide and API Reference
• LAPACK Programmer's Guide and API Reference
• Monte Carlo Library API Reference Manual
• FFT Library API Reference Manual
• 3D FFT Library API Reference Manual (prototype)
• SIMD Math Library API Reference Manual (no updates)
• SPE Runtime Management Library V2.3
• SPE Cryptographic Library User Documentation V1.0 (prototype)
• SPE Runtime Management Library Version 1 to Version 2 Migration Guide
• SPU Runtime Library Extensions Guide
• Example Library API Reference

• PowerPC User Instruction Set Architecture - Book I
• PowerPC Virtual Environment Architecture - Book II
• PowerPC Operating Environment Architecture - Book III
• Vector/SIMD Multimedia Extension Technology Programming Environments Manual
• Cell Broadband Engine Architecture
• Cell Broadband Engine Registers
• Synergistic Processor Unit (SPU) Instruction Set Architecture

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