Project: PS3 Cell SPU Cheat Sheet WIP Arrives

[PS3 News]

Yesterday Niraj Khadka (aka bluemimmosa) http://twitter.com/bluemimmosa/status/14619187552 GeoHot (who is http://twitter.com/geohot/status/14663115353 entering a university level competiton at NASA in Florida) that he has started work on support for the PS3 Cell SPU (Synergistic Processing Unit), and has http://twitter.com/bluemimmosa/status/14688745752 a PS3 Cell SPU Cheat Sheet WIP with other PlayStation 3 developers.

Download: PS3 Cell SPU Cheat Sheet WIP / PS3 Cell SPU Cheat Sheet WIP (Updated)

To quote from the Tweets: "bluemimmosa: @geohot spu.isdf February 14, 2010 Started work on support for the Cell SPU whats with EDA????? any news.."

"geohot: in Florida for http://www.nasa.gov/lunabotics/ CMU team"

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[Joseph Stalin]

And what does it all mean?

[Shrink]

And what does it all mean?

I guess that's difficult to explain. Otherwise I'd say I'm too dumb for this news.

[dondolo]

from bluemimmosa's twitter page, cheatsheet updated..

http://docs.google.com/document/edit...LkCzre3Y&hl=en

[SCE]

I will take my chance:

Assembler like codes to control, program SPEs ?

[proskopina]

thanks boss for sharing! but what's this again?

a lot of people don't now nothing about this things!! why they don't give us the real thing!!!

[Mbb]

Yeah what can we or 'devs' do with this info?

[PS3 News]

I imagine what's done with cheatsheets in general... primarily used to save time. If you examine the column headings it explains what each is, but as many have posted above unless you are a Dev this isn't geared towards end-users.

bluemimmosa did Tweet the following afterwards though:

looking on how to write plugins for IDA pro....

So it appears as though his next step is to work on a plug-in that can be loaded into IDA (disassembler) to simplify the process further.

[xrayglasses]

It's a SPU RISC assembler reference, basically a fraction of what has been public for years in IBM developer pages.. not sure why this is news. The vector instructions and isolation registers are even documented by IBM publicly..

[PS3 News]

not sure why this is news. The vector instructions and isolation registers are even documented by IBM publicly..

Like most projects we post here, it's done primarily to spotlight the Dev's work in hopes that others can lend a hand and get involved if they wish.