Glossary of Terms and Abbreviations
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Glossary of Terms and Abbreviations
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
Std 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.
Atomic. 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 603e microprocessor initiates the read and write
separately, but signals the memory system that it is attempting an
atomic operation. If the operation fails, status is kept so that the 603e
can try again. The 603e implements atomic accesses through the
lwarx/stwcx. instruction pair.
Beat. A single state on the 603e bus interface that may extend across multiple
bus cycles. A 603e transaction can be composed of multiple address
or data beats.
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.
Burst. A multiple beat data transfer whose total size is typically equal to a
cache block (in the 603e, a 32-byte block).
Bus clock. Clock that causes the bus state transitions.
Bus master. The owner of the address or data bus; the device that initiates or
requests the transaction.
Cache. High-speed memory containing recently accessed data and/or
instructions (subset of main memory).
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Summary of Contents for MPC8240
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Page 466: ...13 12 MPC8240 Integrated Processor User s Manual Exception Latencies ...
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Page 538: ...B 16 MPC8240 Integrated Processor User s Manual Setting the Endian Mode of Operation ...
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