PowerPC
(PPC) A ref="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=RISC">RISC ref="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=microprocessor">microprocessor designed to meet a ref="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=standard">standard which was jointly designed by ref="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=Motorola">Motorola, ref="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=IBM">IBM, and ref="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=Apple Computer">Apple Computer (the PowerPC Alliance). The PowerPC standard specifies a common {instruction set architecture} (ISA), allowing anyone to design and fabricate PowerPC processors, which will run the same code. The PowerPC architecture is based on the IBM ref="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=POWER">POWER architecture, used in IBM' s ref="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=RS/6000">RS/6000 ref="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=workstation">workstations. Currently ref="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=IBM">IBM and ref="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=Motorola">Motorola are working on PowerPC chips. The PowerPC standard specifies both 32-bit and 64-bit data paths. Early implementations were 32-bit (e.g. {PowerPC 601}) later higher-performance implementations were 64-bit (e.g. PowerPC 620). A PowerPC has 32 integer ref="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=registers">registers (32- or 64 bit) and 32 ref="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=floating-point">floating-point (IEEE standard 64 bit) ref="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=floating-point">floating-point registers. The POWER CPU chip and PowerPC have a (large) common core, but both have instructions that the other doesn' t. The PowerPC offers the following features that POWER does not: Support for running in ref="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=little-endian">little-endian mode. Addition of single precision ref="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=floating-point">floating-point operations. Control of branch prediction direction. A hardware coherency model (not in Book I). Some other ref="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=floating-point">floating-point instructions (some optional). The real time clock (upper and lower) was replaced with the time base registers (upper and lower), which don' t count in sec/ns (the decrementer also changed). 64-bit instruction operands, registers, etc. (in 64 bit processors). See also ref="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=PowerOpen">PowerOpen, ref="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=PowerPC Platform">PowerPC Platform (PReP). {IBM PPC info (http://fnctsrv0.chips.ibm.com/products/ppc/index.html)}. ref="gopher://info.hed.apple.com/">, "Apple Corporate News/" (press releases), "Apple Technologies/" and "Product Information/". ref="gopher://ike.engr.washington.edu/">, "IBM General News/", "IBM Product Announcements/", "IBM Detailed Product Announcements/", "IBM Hardware Catalog/". ref="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=Usenet">Usenet newsgroups: ref="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=news:comp.sys.powerpc">news:comp.sys.powerpc, ref="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=news:comp.sys.mac.hardware">news:comp.sys.mac.hardware. ["Microprocessor Report", 16 October 1991]. (1994-09-30) In addition suitable contents:
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