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diff --git a/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst b/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst index 080a81a8d5..5c8ff2c0cf 100644 --- a/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst +++ b/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst @@ -138,6 +138,42 @@ graphics / compute drivers which are developed as part of the `Mesa3D <http://www.mesa3d.org>`_ project. +External Open Source Projects Using LLVM 3.3 +============================================ + +An exciting aspect of LLVM is that it is used as an enabling technology for +a lot of other language and tools projects. This section lists some of the +projects that have already been updated to work with LLVM 3.3. + + +Portable Computing Language (pocl) +---------------------------------- + +In addition to producing an easily portable open source OpenCL +implementation, another major goal of `pocl <http://pocl.sourceforge.net/>`_ +is improving performance portability of OpenCL programs with +compiler optimizations, reducing the need for target-dependent manual +optimizations. An important part of pocl is a set of LLVM passes used to +statically parallelize multiple work-items with the kernel compiler, even in +the presence of work-group barriers. This enables static parallelization of +the fine-grained static concurrency in the work groups in multiple ways. + +TTA-based Co-design Environment (TCE) +------------------------------------- + +`TCE <http://tce.cs.tut.fi/>`_ is a toolset for designing new +processors based on the Transport triggered architecture (TTA). +The toolset provides a complete co-design flow from C/C++ +programs down to synthesizable VHDL/Verilog and parallel program binaries. +Processor customization points include the register files, function units, +supported operations, and the interconnection network. + +TCE uses Clang and LLVM for C/C++/OpenCL C language support, target independent +optimizations and also for parts of code generation. It generates new +LLVM-based code generators "on the fly" for the designed TTA processors and +loads them in to the compiler backend as runtime libraries to avoid +per-target recompilation of larger parts of the compiler chain. + Additional Information ====================== |