asfermi | Imported from Google Code

asfermi is a C++ library. asfermi has no bugs, it has no vulnerabilities and it has low support. You can download it from GitHub.

Note: entire project imported from Google Code. This project is no longer actively maintained, and the wiki is pretty much broken on GitHub. asfermi is an assembler for the NVIDIA Fermi ISA. It can output assembled kernels directly into cubin files (an ELF format file that NVIDIA uses to store its machine code), or it can be used to modify existing cubin kernels. Currently around 70 instructions are supported. asfermi works on both 32-bit and 64-bit platforms. Fermi is NVIDIA's current-generation Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) architecture (as of 2011). NVIDIA does not disclose much of the detail of its current architecture. While NVIDIA provides an assembly-like language, PTX, for the use in CUDA, PTX is actually treated as a high-level language that is compiled and optimized with ptxas. As a result, direct access to the hardware using real opcodes is not available. With this assembler, real opcodes can be directly generated on a one-to-one basis from instruction. Aided with this direct means of interaction, hopefully all the important details of the GF1xx architecture may be uncovered, so that the knowledge may be used for more accurate optimization on the Fermi (and later generations of) GPUs. Keywords: CUDA, Fermi, Assembler. Documentation: For a list of the wiki pages and their brief descriptions, see Index.