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Intel ARCHITECTURE IA-32 User Manual

Intel ARCHITECTURE IA-32
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Figures
Figure 1-1 Typical SIMD Operations ................................................................... 1-3
Figure 1-2 SIMD Instruction Register Usage ...................................................... 1-4
Figure 1-3 The Intel NetBurst Microarchitecture ............................................... 1-10
Figure 1-4 Execution Units and Ports in the Out-Of-Order Core.......................1-19
Figure 1-5 The Intel Pentium M Processor Microarchitecture........................... 1-27
Figure 1-6 Hyper-Threading Technology on an SMP........................................ 1-35
Figure 1-7 Pentium D Processor, Pentium Processor Extreme Edition
and Intel Core Duo Processor ......................................................... 1-41
Figure 2-1 Cache Line Split in Accessing Elements in a Array......................... 2-31
Figure 2-2 Size and Alignment Restrictions in Store Forwarding...................... 2-34
Figure 3-1 Converting to Streaming SIMD Extensions Chart .............................3-9
Figure 3-2 Hand-Coded Assembly and High-Level Compiler
Performance Trade-offs ................................................................... 3-13
Figure 3-3 Loop Blocking Access Pattern ......................................................... 3-36
Figure 4-2 Interleaved Pack with Saturation ....................................................... 4-9
Figure 4-1 PACKSSDW mm, mm/mm64 Instruction Example ............................ 4-9
Figure 4-4 Result of Non-Interleaved Unpack High in MM1.............................. 4-12
Figure 4-3 Result of Non-Interleaved Unpack Low in MM0 .............................. 4-12
Figure 4-5 pextrw Instruction ............................................................................ 4-14
Figure 4-6 pinsrw Instruction............................................................................. 4-15
Figure 4-7 pmovmskb Instruction Example....................................................... 4-17
Figure 4-8 pshuf Instruction Example ............................................................... 4-18
Figure 4-9 PSADBW Instruction Example ........................................................ 4-31
Figure 5-1 Homogeneous Operation on Parallel Data Elements ........................ 5-5
Figure 5-2 Dot Product Operation ....................................................................... 5-8
Figure 5-3 Horizontal Add Using movhlps/movlhps .......................................... 5-19
Figure 5-5 Horizontal Arithmetic Operation of the SSE3 Instruction
HADDPD .........................................................................................5-23
Figure 5-4 Asymmetric Arithmetic Operation of the SSE3 Instruction ..............5-23
Figure 6-1 Effective Latency Reduction as a Function of Access Stride...........6-22

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Intel ARCHITECTURE IA-32 Specifications

General IconGeneral
Instruction Setx86
Instruction Set TypeCISC
Memory SegmentationSupported
Operating ModesReal mode, Protected mode, Virtual 8086 mode
Max Physical Address Size36 bits (with PAE)
Max Virtual Address Size32 bits
ArchitectureIA-32 (Intel Architecture 32-bit)
Addressable Memory4 GB (with Physical Address Extension up to 64 GB)
Floating Point Registers8 x 80-bit
MMX Registers8 x 64-bit
SSE Registers8 x 128-bit
RegistersGeneral-purpose registers (EAX, EBX, ECX, EDX, ESI, EDI, ESP, EBP), Segment registers (CS, DS, SS, ES, FS, GS), Instruction pointer (EIP), Flags register (EFLAGS)
Floating Point UnitYes (x87)

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