%T trancell \- an Experimental ETC to Cell BE Translator
%A  Ulrik Schou Jørgensen,  Espen Suenson
%E  Alistair A. McEwan,  Steve Schneider,  Wilson Ifill, Peter H. Welch
%B Communicating Process Architectures 2007
%X This paper describes trancell, a translator and associated
   runtime environment that allows programs written in the
   occam programming language to be run on the Cell BE
   microarchitecture. trancell cannot stand alone, but requires
   the front end from the KRoC/Linux compiler for generating
   Extended Transputer Code (ETC), which is then translated
   into native Cell SPU assembly code and linked with the
   trancell runtime. The paper describes the difficulties in
   implementing occam on the Cell, notably the runtime support
   required for implementing channel communications and true 
   parallelism. Various benchmarks are examined to investigate
   the success of the approach.