User’s Manual
IBM PowerPC 750GX and 750GL RISC Microprocessor
Acronyms and Abbreviations
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FPR
Floating Point Register
FPSCR
Floating-Point Status and Control Register
FPU floating-point
unit
GPR General
Purpose
Register
HIDn Hardware-Implementation-Dependent
Register
IABR
Instruction Address Breakpoint Register
IBAT instruction
BAT
ICTC
Instruction Cache Throttling Control Register
IEEE
Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers
IMMU instruction
MMU
IQ instruction
queue
ITLB
instruction translation lookaside buffer
IU integer
unit
JTAG
Joint Test Action Group
L2
secondary cache (level 2 cache)
L2CR
L2 Cache Control Register
LIFO last-in-first-out
LR lInk
Register
LRU least
recently
used
LSb least-significant
bit
LSB least-significant
byte
LSU load/store
unit
MEI modified/exclusive/invalid
MESI modified/exclusive/shared/invalid—cache-coherency
protocol
MMCRn
Monitor Mode Control Registers
MMU
memory management unit
MSb most-significant
bit
MSB most-significant
byte
MSR
Machine State Register