PC7447/57 [Preliminary]
Eight-entry link register stack to predict the target address of Branch Conditional to
Link Register (BCLR) instructions
– Four integer units (IUs) that share 32 GPRs for integer operands
Three identical IUs (IU1a, IU1b, and IU1c) can execute all integer instructions except
multiply, divide, and move to/from special-purpose register instructions
IU2 executes miscellaneous instructions including the CR logical operations, integer
multiplication and division instructions, and move to/from special-purpose register
instructions
– Five-stage FPU and a 32-entry FPR file
Fully IEEE 754-1985-compliant FPU for both single- and double-precision
operations
Supports non-IEEE mode for time-critical operations
Hardware support for denormalized numbers
Thirty-two 64-bit FPRs for single- or double-precision operands
– Four vector units and 32-entry vector register file (VRs)
Vector permute unit (VPU)
Vector integer unit 1 (VIU1) handles short-latency AltiVec™ integer instructions, such
as vector add instructions (vaddsbs, vaddshs, and vaddsws, for example)
Vector integer unit 2 (VIU2) handles longer-latency AltiVec integer instructions, such
as vector multiply add instructions (vmhaddshs, vmhraddshs, and vmladduhm, for
example)
Vector floating-point unit (VFPU)
– Three-stage load/store unit (LSU)
Supports integer, floating-point, and vector instruction load/store traffic
Four-entry vector touch queue (VTQ) supports all four architected AltiVec data
stream operations
Three-cycle GPR and AltiVec load latency (byte, half-word, word, vector) with one-
cycle throughput
Four-cycle FPR load latency (single, double) with one-cycle throughput
No additional delay for misaligned access within double-word boundary
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