Chapter 13

A1:

What are the disadvantages of offering customers a new architecture?

A2:

Think about the Intel IA-32 architecture, for example.

A3:

Over time, what features have moved from outside the chip to inside? Cache and floating-point instructions are two examples. What others can you cite?

A4:

You might try to research the relative latency of integer multiplication in other architectures.

A6:

Two M-units can load data (load pair and a regular load) and another M-unit can store a result with templates such as MMF and Mxx for the instruction group. The original Itanium processor has fewer M-units.

A8:

256 to +255 bundles, or ±4 KiB.



ItaniumR Architecture for Programmers. Understanding 64-Bit Processors and EPIC Principles
ItaniumR Architecture for Programmers. Understanding 64-Bit Processors and EPIC Principles
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Year: 2003
Pages: 223

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