2003•Unpublished venueRequires access

A low-power, high-speed implementation of a PowerPC/sup TM/ microprocessor vector extension

M.S. Schmookler, M. Putrino, C. Roth, Manoj Sharma, Ann Mather, Jon Tyler, H. Van Nguyen, M. Pham, Jan Van lent

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The AltiVec/sup TM/ technology is an extension to the PowerPC architecture/sup TM/ which provides new computational and storage operations for handling vectors of various data lengths and data types. The first implementation using this technology is a low-cost, low-power processor based on the acclaimed PowerPC 750/sup TM/ microprocessor. This paper describes the microarchitecture and design of the vector arithmetic unit of this implementation.

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Key concepts: PowerPC, Microprocessor, Microarchitecture, Computer science, Extension (predicate logic), Power (physics), Architecture, Embedded system