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Stream User’s Guide


This User’s Guide gives an introduction to Stream programming and to the use of Stream tools. It describes how to install the Stream toolset. It presents an overview of SPI stream processors, the Stream programming model, and the software development tools used to compile, simulate, run, and debug Stream programs. It gives a detailed tutorial introduction to the design and implementation of an application program using a concrete programming example.

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This document contains confidential and proprietary information of Stream Processors, Inc. Possession of this document or any part thereof in any form constitutes full acceptance of the terms and conditions of the mutual Non-Disclosure Agreement in effect between the recipient and Stream Processors, Inc. The contents of this document are preliminary and subject to change without notice. The stream processing technology and other technologies described in this document are subject to issued patents and pending patent applications in the United States and other countries. This document confers upon recipient no right or license to make, have made, use, sell, or practice any of the technology or inventions described herein.
Stream Processors, Inc.

455 DeGuigne Drive

Sunnyvale, CA 94085-3890 USA

Telephone: +1.408.616.3338

Fax: +1.408.616.3337

Email: info@streamprocessors.com

Web: www.streamprocessors.com

© 2005-2009 by Stream Processors, Inc. All rights reserved. This document contains advance information on SPI products, some of which are in development, sampling or initial production phases. The information and specifications contained herein are preliminary and are subject to change at the discretion of Stream Processors, Inc.
Table of Contents


Stream User’s Guide 1

1 Introduction 5

1.1 Typographical conventions 5

1.2 Document revision history 5

2 Installation 6

2.1 Install the toolset 6

2.2 Distribution contents 7

3 Stream Programming 8

3.1 Stream programming model 9

3.2 Stream language extensions 9

4 Component API 12

4.1 Basics 12

4.2 Execution 17

4.3 Runtime reporting 22

4.4 Initialization files 23

5 Pipeline API 28

5.1 Streams 28

5.2 Stream functions 32

6 Kernel API 34

6.1 Kernels 34

6.2 DPU basic types 36

6.3 Scalar and vector variables 37

6.4 Arrays 37

6.5 Operators 38

6.6 Control flow constructs 39

6.7 Stream access functions 40

6.8 Intrinsic operations 42

6.9 __repeat__ 45

6.10 #pragma pipeline 45

6.11 #pragma local_array_size 46



7 Demo Application spm_demo 47

7.1 Testbench main 47

7.2 Data representation 48

7.3 Implementation alternatives 49

7.4 Buffer allocation 49

7.5 Streams 50

7.6 Kernels 52

7.7 File input component 54

7.8 File output component 59

7.9 Green screen removal component 60

7.10 Component main 61

8 Command line tools 65

8.1 Functional mode: Run on host 65

8.2 Simulate with spsim 66

8.3 Run on hardware 67

8.4 Run application on host or on DSP MIPS 71

8.5 Run application on hardware 71

8.6 Logs 72

8.7 Timers 73

8.8 Performance 74

9 Stream Program Development 75

9.1 Invoke spide 76

9.2 Create a project 78

9.3 Functional mode 84

9.4 Profile mode 90

9.5 Release mode 95

9.6 Complete application 96

9.7 Import a project 101

9.8 Use Makefile from command line 101

10 Performance optimization 103

10.1 Pipelines 104

10.2 Visualization 106

10.3 Components 108

10.4 Tables 109

10.5 Stream operations 113

10.6 Kernels 119

11 Glossary 123

12 Index 126




1Introduction

A stream processor is a high performance programmable processor for digital image processing and digital signal processing (DSP) applications. The stream processors of Stream Processors, Inc. (SPI) are programmable in an extended version of the C programming language, using the Stream programming model (SPM). The Stream programming model exposes the parallelism and locality inherent in an application program, and the SPI processor design and software development tools exploit this parallelism and locality in hardware.


This document gives a tutorial introduction to Stream programming and to the use of SPI Stream tools. It describes how to install the SPI Stream tools. It presents the essential concepts of SPI stream processors that you must understand to write efficient Stream programs. It describes the Stream extensions to the C language and the application programming interface (API) to the Stream programming model. It uses a demo program as a detailed introductory Stream programming example. It describes stream program development flow under an integrated development environment (IDE).
A companion volume, Stream Reference Manual, contains detailed reference information on Stream programming and on the tools in the Stream toolset. Stream Release Notes gives specific information related to the current release of the Stream tools.

1.1Typographical conventions

This manual indicates a definition by setting the defined word in italic type. Italic type also indicates a placeholder that may take on different values; for example, an n-bit object might contain 8, 16, or 32 bits. Bold type indicates filenames and programming language literals; for example, int is a C data type. Monospace typeface Courier is used for command line input text and for C and Stream program fragments.




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