Contents

• 1 INTRODUCTION
  • 1 Document Overview
  • 2 Acronyms, Abbreviations and Definitions
  • 3 Typographic Conventions Used in the Document
  
  
• 2 PROCESSOR DESIGN FLOW
  • 1 Design Flow Overview
  • 2 Main File Formats
  
  
• 3 TUTORIALS AND HOW-TOS
  • 1 TCE Tour
  • 2 From C to VHDL as Quickly as Possible
  • 3 Hello TTA World!
  • 4 Streaming I/O
  • 5 Implementing Programs in Parallel Assembly Code
  • 6 Using multiple memories from C code
  • 7 Running TTA on FPGA
  • 8 How to print from Altera FPGAs
  • 9 Designing Floating-point Processors with TCE
  • 10 Multi-TTA Designs
  • 11 OpenCL Support
  • 12 System-on-a-Chip design with AlmaIF Integrator
  
  
• 4 PROCESSOR DESIGN TOOLS
  • 1 TTA Processor Designer (ProDe)
  • 2 Operation Set Abstraction Layer (OSAL) Tools
  • 3 OSAL files
  • 4 OSAL search paths
  • 5 Processor Generator (ProGe)
  • 6 Platform Integrator
  • 7 Supported Platforms
  • 8 Hardware Database Editor (HDB Editor)
  • 9 Hardware Database Tester
  • 10 Processor unit tester
  • 11 Function Unit Interface
  
  
• 5 CODE GENERATION TOOLS
  • 1 TCE Compiler
  • 2 Binary Encoding Map Generator (BEMGenerator)
  • 3 Parallel Assembler and Disassembler
  • 4 Program Image Generator (PIG)
  • 5 TPEF Dumper (dumptpef)
  
  
• 6 CO-DESIGN TOOLS
  • 1 Architecture Simulation and Debugging
  • 2 System Level Simulation with SystemC
  • 3 Processor Cost/Performance Estimator (estimate)
  • 4 Automatic Design Space Explorer (explore)
  
  
• 7 PROCESSOR TEMPLATE
  • 1 Architecture Template
  • 2 Programmer Interface
  
  
• 8 PRODUCING EFFICIENT TTA DESIGNS WITH TCE
  • 1 Registers and Register Files
  • 2 Interconnection Network
  • 3 Operation Set
  
  
• 9 TROUBLESHOOTING
  • 1 Simulation
  • 2 Limitations of the Current Toolset Version
  
  
• A. FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
  • 1 Memory Related
  • 2 Processor Generator
  • 3 tcecc
  • 4 Hardware characteristics
  • 5 Misc
  
  
• B. SystemC Simulation Example
• C. Copyright notices
  • 1 Xerces
  • 2 wxWidgets
  • 3 L-GPL
  • 4 TCL
  • 5 SQLite
  • 6 Editline
  
  
• Bibliography