CBESW: Sequence Alignment on the Playstation 3

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Table 1 List of SPU Low-Level Specific and Generic Intrinsics used in the implementation

Category of Intrinsics	SPU Low-Level Specific and Generic Intrinsics used
Constant Formation Intrinsics.	spu_splats
Arithmetic Intrinsics	spu_add spu_sub
Compare, Branch and Halt Intrinsics	spu_cmpgt
Bits and Mask Intrinsics	spu_sel
Logical Intrinsics	spu_or spu_and spu_nor spu_nand
Shift and Rotate Intrinsics	spu_slqwbyte spu_rlmaskqwbyte spu_rlmaska
Scalar Intrinsics	spu_extract

List of SPU Low-Level Specific and Generic Intrinsics used in the implementation are listed and sorted into categories, as shown below. More details about the syntax and semantics of these Intrinsics can be found in [19].

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