2 PROCESSOR DESIGN FLOW

The main goal for the TTA Co-design Environment (TCE) is to provide a reliable and effective toolset for designing programmable application specific processors, and generate machine code for them from applications written in high-level languages, such as C, C++ or OpenCL.

Figure 2.1: Overview of TTA Co-design Environment (TCE).

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In addition, TCE provides an extensible research platform for experimenting with new ideas for Transport Triggered Architectures (TTAs), retargetable ILP code generation, and application specific processor design methodology, among others.