Spu assembly language specification – Sony VERSION 1.0 User Manual
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SPU Assembly Language Specification
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Length
31 pages.
Audience
Assembly-language programmers writing application or system programs for the SPE.
Content
The grammar, lexicon, register usage, and related details for an SPE assembly language.
Recommended Use
and refer to it thereafter as needed during assembly-
language coding of SPE applications.
Document Sections
The document has the following sections:
1. Introduction: Summarizes the contents of the document.
2. Instruction Set and Instruction Syntax: Descriptions of notation and data formats, the instruction set, register and
instruction aliases, channel mnemonics, encoding of immediate values, and errors and warnings.
Recommended Prerequisites
Read or browse:
SPU Instruction Set Architecture
Further Details
None.