
e200z3 Power Architecture Core Reference Manual, Rev. 2
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Glossary-1
Glossary
The glossary contains an alphabetical list of terms, phrases, and abbreviations used in this book. Some of
the terms and definitions included in the glossary are reprinted from IEEE Standard 754-1985, IEEE
Standard for Binary Floating-Point Arithmetic, copyright ©1985 by the Institute of Electrical and
Electronics Engineers, Inc. with the permission of the IEEE.
A
Architecture. A detailed specification of requirements for a processor or computer
system. It does not specify details of how the processor or computer system must
be implemented; instead it provides a template for a family of compatible
implementations.
Asynchronous interrupt. interrupts that are caused by events external to the processor’s
execution. In this document, the term asynchronous interrupt is used
interchangeably with the word interrupt.
Atomic access. A bus access that attempts to be part of a read-write operation to the same
address uninterrupted by any other access to that address (the term refers to the
fact that the transactions are indivisible). The PowerPC architecture implements
atomic accesses through the lwarx/stwcx. instruction pair.
B
Biased exponent. An exponent whose range of values is shifted by a constant (bias).
Typically a bias is provided to allow a range of positive values to express a range
that includes both positive and negative values.
Big-endian. A byte-ordering method in memory where the address n of a word
corresponds to the most-significant byte. In an addressed memory word, the bytes
are ordered (left to right) 0, 1, 2, 3, with 0 being the most-significant byte. See
Little-endian.
Boundedly undefined. A characteristic of certain operation results that are not rigidly
prescribed by the PowerPC architecture. Boundedly- undefined results for a given
operation may vary among implementations and between execution attempts in
the same implementation.
Although the architecture does not prescribe the exact behavior for when results
are allowed to be boundedly undefined, the results of executing instructions in
contexts where results are allowed to be boundedly undefined are constrained to
ones that could have been achieved by executing an arbitrary sequence of defined
instructions, in valid form, starting in the state the machine was in before
attempting to execute the given instruction.
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