[RFC] PowerPC DFA description

David Edelsohn dje@watson.ibm.com
Wed May 29 15:34:00 GMT 2002


>>>>> Daniel Egger writes:

Daniel> In contrast to the 7450 which has four AlitVec units (VUI1, VUI2, VFPU
Daniel> and VPU) the 7400 has two units only (VALU and VPU) the former of which
Daniel> having three subunits. Since I couldn't imagine any better way to model
Daniel> that I followed the pattern I though I found in your description by
Daniel> adding a new automaton for the completely seperate vector unit.

	That is associating instruction types with function units, not
automata.  How many automata per function unit is a different question --
at least the way Red Hat generated the initial description.

David



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