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Datasheet
IBM PowerPC 750GX RISC Microprocessor
DD1.X
1. General Information
The IBM PowerPC
®
750GX RISC
1
Microprocessor is a 32-bit implementation of the IBM PowerPC family.
This document contains pertinent physical and electrical characteristics of the IBM PowerPC 750GX RISC
Microprocessor Revision DD1.X Single Chip Module (SCM). The IBM PowerPC 750GX RISC Microprocessor
is also referred to as the 750GX throughout this document.
1.1 Features
This section summarizes the features of the 750GX
implementation of the PowerPC Architecture™.
Major features of the 750GX include the following:
• Branch processing unit
– Four instructions fetched per clock
– One branch processed per cycle (plus
resolving two speculations)
– Up to one speculative stream in execution,
one additional speculative stream in fetch
– 512-entry branch history table (BHT) for
dynamic prediction
– 64-entry, 4-way set associative branch
target instruction cache (BTIC) for
eliminating branch delay slots
• Decode
– Register file access
– Forwarding control
– Partial instruction decode
• Load/store unit
– One cycle load or store cache access (byte,
half-word, word, double-word)
– Effective address generation
– Hits under miss (four outstanding misses)
– Single-cycle misaligned access within
double-word boundary
– Alignment, zero padding, sign extend for
integer register file
– Floating-point internal format conversion
(alignment, normalization)
– Sequencing for load/store multiples and
string operations
– Store gathering
– Cache and translation lookaside buffer
(TLB) instructions
– Big-endian and little-endian byte addressing
supported
– Misaligned little-endian support in hardware
• Dispatch unit
– Full hardware detection of dependencies
(resolved in the execution units)
– Dispatch two instructions to six independent
units (system, branch, load/store, fixed-point
unit 1, fixed-point unit 2, or floating-point)
– 4-stage pipeline: fetch, dispatch, execute,
and complete
– Serialization control (predispatch,
postdispatch, execution, serialization)
• Fixed-point units
– Fixed-point unit 1 (FXU1): multiply, divide,
shift, rotate, arithmetic, logical
– Fixed-point unit 2 (FXU2): shift, rotate,
arithmetic, logical
– Single-cycle arithmetic: shift, rotate, logical
– Multiply and divide support (multi-cycle)
– Early out multiply
– Thirty-two 32-bit general purpose registers
• Floating-point unit
– Support for IEEE
®
-754 standard single-pre-
cision and double-precision floating-point
arithmetic
– Optimized for single-precision multiply/add
– Thirty-two 64-bit floating-point registers
– Enhanced reciprocal estimates
– 3-cycle latency, 1-cycle throughput,
single-precision multiply-add
– 3-cycle latency, 1-cycle throughput,
double-precision add
– 4-cycle latency, 2-cycle throughput,
double-precision multiply-add
– Hardware support for divide
– Hardware support for denormalized
numbers
– Time deterministic non-IEEE mode
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