IBM PowerPC 750GX User Manual

User’s Manual
IBM PowerPC 750GX and 750GL RISC Microprocessor
750gx_umIX.fm.(1.2)
March 27, 2006
Index
Page 369 of 377
Index
A
AACK (address acknowledge) signal, 262
ABB
(address bus busy) signal, 285
Address bus
address tenure
, 284
address transfer
An
, 254
APE
, 294
address transfer attribute
CI
, 260
GBL
, 261
TBST
, 259, 294
TSIZn
, 258, 294
TTn
, 256, 294
WT
, 260
address transfer start
TS
, 253, 292
address transfer termination
AACK, 262
ARTRY
, 263
terminating address transfer
, 300
arbitration signals
, 251, 285
bus parking
, 291
Address translation, see Memory management unit
Addressing modes, 89
Aligned data transfer
, 296, 300
Alignment
data transfers, 296
exception
, 170
misaligned accesses
, 82
rules
, 82
An (address bus) signals
, 254
APE
(address parity error) signal, 294
Arbitration, system bus
, 290, 301
ARTRY
(address retry) signal, 263
B
BG (bus grant) signal, 252, 285
Block address translation
block address translation flow
, 189
definition
, 33
registers
description
, 61
initialization
, 196
selection of block address translation
, 186
Boundedly undefined, definition
, 87
BR
(bus request) signal, 251, 285
Branch fall-through
, 226
Branch folding
, 226
Branch instructions
address calculation
, 106
condition register logical
, 107
list of instructions
, 107
system linkage
, 108, 118
trap
, 108
Branch prediction
, 209, 229
Branch processing unit
branch instruction timing
, 231
execution timing
, 225
latency, branch instructions
, 238
overview
, 30
Branch resolution
definition
, 209
resource requirements
, 237
BTIC (branch target instruction cache)
, 216
Burst data transfers
32-bit data bus
, 296
64-bit data bus
, 295
transfers with data delays, timing
, 314
Bus arbitration, see Data bus
Bus configurations, 318
Bus interface unit (BIU)
, 122, 279
Bus transactions and L1 cache
, 139
Byte ordering
, 89
C
Cache
arbitration
, 217
block instructions
dcbi, data cache block invalidate, 119
dcbt, data cache block touch
, 116
block, definition
, 123
bus interface unit
, 122, 279
cache operations
load/store operations, processor initiated, 130
operations
, 136
overview
, 281
cache unit overview
, 123
cache-inhibited accesses (I bit)
, 125
characteristics
, 121
coherency
description, 125
overview
, 142
reaction to bus operations
, 143
control instructions
, 131
bus operations
, 141
data cache configuration
, 123
dcbf/dcbst execution
, 328
hit
, 217
icbi
, 328
instruction cache configuration
, 124
instruction cache throttling
, 347
integration
, 122
L1 cache and bus transactions
, 139

IBM PowerPC 750GX Specifications

General

Brand	IBM
Model	PowerPC 750GX
Category	Computer Hardware
Language	English