Contents

• Introduction
  • System Overview
  • Concepts and Features of SALTO
    • Manipulated Objects
    • User Interface
    • Target System Descriptions
    • Structure of the Manual
• SALTO Target Description Specifications
  • Description Overview
  • Description Organization
  • Target Identification
  • Hardware Resources
    • Basic Resources
    • Resource Aliases
    • Resource Classes
  • Reservation Tables
  • Lexical Structure of the Assembly Language
    • Comments
    • Non-Blank Separators
    • Pattern-Matching Tokens
  • Instruction Sets
    • VLIW Instruction Width
    • Semantical Information
    • Native Instructions
    • Macro-Instructions
  • Target-Specific Functionalities
  • Putting It All Together
    • Defining the Resources
    • Defining the Functional Units
    • Defining the Reservation Tables
    • Instruction Semantics
    • Instruction Definitions
• SALTO User Interface Specification
  • Classes and Objects
  • SALTO-Specific Types
  • SALTO Primitives
    • Programming Conventions Used in the Interface
    • Global Primitives
    • Control Flow Graphs
    • Basic Blocks
    • Instructions
      • Type and property predicates
      • Construction and duplication of instructions
      • Issue cycle manipulation
      • Name, informative annotations, and textual representation
      • Operands
      • Resource accesses
  • Operand Abstraction
    • Constructors
    • Type Manipulation
      • Operand contents manipulation
      • Resource access information
  • Attributes
    • Predefined Attributes
    • Attribute Management
    • Attribute Usage
  • Reservation Table Management
    • Resource Descriptions
    • Resource References
    • Reservation Table Entries
    • Reservation Tables
    • Usage Examples
      • Flow dependence checking
      • Number of resource accesses
• Application Examples
  • Instrumentation
  • Local Reordering
  • Local Label Renaming
• References
• Prototype description of the Philips TriMedia TM1000 architecture
  • Definition of resources
  • Semantical constraints
  • Main file: assembler structure and the instruction set
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