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| title: "Instruction Set Architecture"
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| group: isa
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| publicreview: false
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| aliases:
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|   - "powerisa/"
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|   - "power31/"
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|   - "powerisa31/"
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|   - "power30/"
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|   - "powerisa30/"
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|   - "power207/"
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|   - "powerisa207/"
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|   - "/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/PowerISAv3b1r01.pdf"
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| tags:
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|   - instructionsetarchitecture
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|   - isa
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|   - powerisa
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|   - cores
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|   - power8
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|   - power9
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|   - power10
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| date: 2021-08-30
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| draft: false
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| ---
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| 
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| The Power Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) Version is a specification that describes the architecture used for the IBM POWER processor.  
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| It defines the instructions the processors execute.  
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| It is comprised of three books and a set of appendices.  
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| - Book I
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|   - Power ISA User Instruction Set Architecture, covers the base instruction set and related facilities available to the application programmer.
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| - Book II
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|   - Power ISA Virtual Environment Architecture, defines the storage model and related instructions and facilities available to the application programmer.
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| - Book III
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|   - Power ISA Operating Environment Architecture, defines the supervisor instructions and related facilities.
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