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Fully-associative. Addressing scheme where every cache location (every byte) can have
any possible address.
G
General-purpose register (GPR). Any of the 32 registers in the general-purpose register
file. These registers provide the source operands and destination results for all
integer data manipulation instructions. Integer load instructions move data from
memory to GPRs and store instructions move data from GPRs to memory.
H
Harvard architecture. An architectural model featuring separate caches for instruction
and data.
I
IEEE 754. A standard written by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers that
defines operations and representations of binary floating-point arithmetic.
Illegal instructions. A class of instructions that are not implemented for a particular
MPC8xx processor. These include instructions not defined by the architecture. In
addition, for 32-bit implementations, instructions that are defined only for 64-bit
implementations are considered to be illegal instructions. For 64-bit
implementations instructions that are defined only for 32-bit implementations are
considered to be illegal instructions.
Implementation. A particular processor that conforms to the PowerPC architecture, but
may differ from other architecture-compliant implementations for example in
design, feature set, and implementation of optional features.
Implementation-dependent. An aspect of a feature in a processor’s design that is defined
by a processor’s design specifications rather than by the PowerPC architecture.
Implementation-specific. An aspect of a feature in a processor’s design that is not required
by the PowerPC architecture, but for which the PowerPC architecture may provide
concessions to ensure that processors that implement the feature do so
consistently.
Imprecise exception. A type of synchronous exception that is allowed not to adhere to the
precise exception model (see Precise exception). The PowerPC architecture
allows only floating-point exceptions to be handled imprecisely.
Internal bus. The bus connecting the core and system interface unit (SIU).
Instruction latency. The total number of clock cycles necessary to execute an instruction
and make ready the results of that instruction.
Interrupt. An asynchronous exception. On MPC8xx processors, interrupts are a special
case of exceptions. See also asynchronous exception.
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