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| title: "POWER Instruction Set Architecture 2.07" | ||||
| publicreview: false | ||||
| date: 2022-01-01 | ||||
| draft: false | ||||
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| The Power Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) Version 2.07B is a specification that describes the architecture used | ||||
| for the IBM® POWER8®, IBM® POWER8® with NVIDIA® NVLink™ Technology, the Suzhou Powercore Technology CP1 processor | ||||
| & prior IBM Power Architecture® processors. | ||||
| It defines the instructions the processors execute. It consists of five books and a set of appendices. | ||||
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| - Book I, Power ISA User Instruction Set Architecture, | ||||
|   covers the base instruction set and related facilities available to the application programmer. | ||||
| - Book II, Power ISA Virtual Environment Architecture, | ||||
|   defines the storage model and related instructions and facilities available to the application programmer. | ||||
| - Book III-S, Power ISA Operating Environment Architecture - Server Environment, | ||||
|   defines the supervisor instructions and related facilities used for general purpose implementations. | ||||
| - Book III-E, Power ISA Operating Environment Architecture - Embedded Environment, | ||||
|   defines the supervisor instructions and related facilities used for embedded implementations. | ||||
| - Book VLE, Power ISA Operating Environment Architecture - Variable Length Encoding (VLE) Instructions Architecture, | ||||
|   defines alternative instruction encoding and definitions intended to increase instruction density for very low end implementations. | ||||
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| The Power ISA specification is an important resource for software developers especially compiler and tool chain developers. | ||||
| Firmware and operating system developers will also find it essential. | ||||
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| versions: | ||||
|   - number: "2.07" | ||||
|     date: "2013-05-03" | ||||
|     download: "" | ||||
|     description: "Initial release." | ||||
|   - number: "2.07b" | ||||
|     date: "2017-03-29" | ||||
|     download: "https://ibm.ent.box.com/s/1hzcwkwf8rbju5h9iyf44wm94amnlcrv" | ||||
|     description: "Update specification." | ||||
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