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title: "POWER Instruction Set Architecture 2.07"
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publicreview: false
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date: 2022-01-01
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draft: true
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---
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The Power Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) Version 2.07B is a specification that describes the architecture used
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for the IBM® POWER8®, IBM® POWER8® with NVIDIA® NVLink™ Technology, the Suzhou Powercore Technology CP1 processor
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& prior IBM Power Architecture® processors.
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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,
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covers the base instruction set and related facilities available to the application programmer.
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- Book II, Power ISA Virtual Environment Architecture,
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defines the storage model and related instructions and facilities available to the application programmer.
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- Book III-S, Power ISA Operating Environment Architecture - Server Environment,
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defines the supervisor instructions and related facilities used for general purpose implementations.
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- Book III-E, Power ISA Operating Environment Architecture - Embedded Environment,
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defines the supervisor instructions and related facilities used for embedded implementations.
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- Book VLE, Power ISA Operating Environment Architecture - Variable Length Encoding (VLE) Instructions Architecture,
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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.
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Firmware and operating system developers will also find it essential.
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