URL: https://linuxfr.org/users/ange_thom/journaux/ibm-sony-toshiba-the-cell
Title: IBM, Sony, Toshiba : The Cell
Authors: ange_thom
Date: 2005年05月25日T14:08:47+02:00
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IBM, Sony et Toshiba seraient prets à ouvrir/liberer les specifs du processeur the Cell. 
 
extrait de l'article du eetimes : 
"_"Our intention is to open up the Cell software architecture. The idea is to get the industry to help us evolve the basic software layers," said IBM's Jim Kahle, the Cell team leader. 
 
The three companies are now doing a final review of a Cell architecture specification that could be released to software developers by the end of May. It will include details of more than 200 new instructions used in the specialized cores inside Cell. The group also plans to release open-source software libraries for Cell as early as this fall. 
 
"We're not yet sure about the right licensing terms for the libraries. It can be hard to give stuff away for free," Kahle said in an interview after a presentation at the Spring Processor Forum here. 
 
The trio is almost done with an application binary interface and language extensions for Cell. A system-level simulator is also nearly complete. Yet to come is a full-fledged Linux implementation for the CPU. 
 
"Our plan is to open-source the software for Cell and productize different parts as we go along," said Kahle. 
_" 
 
En gros : ils veulent ouvrir l'archi pour que toute l'industrie les aide à faire evoluer les "niveaux logiciels basiques". Ils devraient publier les specifs aux developpeurs dans la fin Mai. 
Par contre ils ne sont pas encore surs des termes de la licence pour des librairies. 
Et une implementation de Linux pour ce cpu serait bientot dispo. 
 
[http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/05/25/ibm_opens_cell/(...)](http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/05/25/ibm_opens_cell/) 
[http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=1631(...)](http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=163106213) 
[http://research.scea.com/research/html/CellGDC05/index.html(...)](http://research.scea.com/research/html/CellGDC05/index.html)
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