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 373 of 377
O
OEA
exception mechanism
, 151
memory management specifications
, 179
registers
, 60
Operand conventions
, 82
Operand placement and performance
, 233
Operating environment architecture (OEA)
, 41
Operations
bus operations caused by cache control instructions
,
141
instruction cache block fill
, 139
read operation
, 140
response to snooped bus transactions
, 143
single-beat write operations
, 311
Overview
, 23
P
Page address translation
definition
, 33
page address translation flow
, 202
page size
, 196
selection of page address translation
, 186, 192
TLB organization
, 200
Page history status
cases of dcbt and dcbtst misses, 197
R and C bit recording
, 188, 196–199
Page table updates
, 207
Performance monitor
event counting
, 355
event selecting
, 356
performance monitor interrupt
, 172, 349
performance monitor SPRs
, 350
purposes
, 349
registers
, 351
warnings
, 356
Physical address generation
, 179
Pipeline
instruction timing, definition
, 210
pipeline stages
, 214
pipelined execution unit
, 212
superscalar/pipeline diagram
, 212
PMC1 and PMC2 registers
, 44
PMCn (performance monitor counter) registers
, 74, 172,
351
Power and ground signals
, 278
Power management
doze mode
, 337
dynamic power management
, 335
full-power mode
, 337
nap mode
, 337
programmable power modes
, 336
sleep mode
, 339
software considerations
, 340
PowerPC architecture
operating environment architecture (OEA), 41
user instruction set architecture (UISA)
, 41
virtual environment architecture (VEA)
, 41
Priorities, exception
, 153
Process switching
, 162
Processor control instructions
, 108, 113, 118
Program exception
, 170
Program order, definition
, 210
Programmable power states
doze mode
, 337
nap mode
, 337
sleep mode
, 339
Protection of memory areas
no-execute protection
, 190
options available
, 187
protection violations
, 192
PVR (processor version register)
, 60
Q
QACK (quiescent acknowledge) signal, 273
QREQ
(quiescent request) signal, 273
Qualified bus grant
, 285
Qualified data bus grant
, 302
R
Read operation, 143
Read-atomic operation
, 143
Read-with-intent-to-modify operation
, 143
Real address (RA), see Physical address generation
Real addressing mode (translation disabled)
data accesses
, 189, 195
instruction accesses
, 189, 195
support for real addressing mode
, 180
Referenced (R) bit maintenance recording
, 188, 197,
204
Registers
implementation-specific
ICTC
, 77, 348
L2CR
, 81, 329
MMCR0
, 72, 172, 351
MMCR1
, 74, 172, 351
SIA
, 75, 172
THRMn
, 78
UMMCR0
, 73
UMMCR1
, 74
UPMCn
, 75
USIA
, 76
performance monitor registers
, 72
SPR encodings
, 112
supervisor-level
BAT registers, 61

IBM PowerPC 750GX Specifications

General

Brand	IBM
Model	PowerPC 750GX
Category	Computer Hardware
Language	English