It is possible to work on a windows host to create unixcompatible object files. Using standard commandline tools and extensive examples, the authors illuminate the itanium design within the broader context of contemporary computer architecture via a stepbystep investigation of. That is, itanium architecture 64bit elf files may use either. Itanium performance insights from the impact compiler, aug 2001. The intel itanium architecture software developers manual provides a comprehensive description of the programmin g environment, resources, and instruction set visible to both the application and system programmer. It is the most common as most new cpus in the home and business use this architecture. Itanium processor microarchitecture computer science.
The implementation of the itanium 2 microprocessor article in ieee journal of solidstate circuits 3711. Intel itanium architecture software developers manual, rev. Intel ia64 architecture software developers manual, itanium software conventions and. Pdf the intel itanium architecture is increasingly becoming one of the. Ia64 also called intel itanium architecture is the instruction set architecture isa of the itanium family of 64bit intel microprocessors. His most recent title is itanium architecture for software developers. Intel itanium architecture software developers manual. Jul 01, 2000 walter triebel is the author of 17 books on microprocessors, digital logic, and memory. Intel itaniumtm architecture assembly language reference guide.
Copies of documents which have an order number and are referenced in this document, or other. Pdf intel itanium floatingpoint architecture researchgate. The requirements in this document have been updated for the sixth maintenance release for sas 9. The intel itanium architecture software developers manual provides a comprehensive description of the programming environment, resources, and instruction set visible to both the application and system programmer. Itanium 2 processor microarchitecture micro, ieee electrical and. Itanium software conventions and runtime architecture guide, 2001, 24535803. As do the other processors discussed before, the itanium architecture also uses the loadstore. While the general features of the itanium architecture such as large register sets, predication, speculation, and support for explicit parallelism 1 have been presented in several papers, books, and mainstream college textbooks 2, its floatingpoint architecture has been less publicized. The design team optimized the processor to meet a wide range of requirements.
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Itanium architecture for software developers walter a. A key feature of the itanium architecture is ia32 instruction set compatibility. Walter triebel is the author of 17 books on microprocessors, digital logic, and memory. In the mid 1980s, ic process technology could fabricate a microcoded. Many aspects of the itanium 2 processor microarchitecture result from opportunities and requirements associated with intels itani. Itanium architecture for software developers by walter a. The implementation of the itanium 2 microprocessor. Avaliable format in pdf, epub, mobi, kindle, ebook and audiobook. Request pdf the implementation of the itanium 2 microprocessor this 64b microprocessor is the secondgeneration design of the new itanium architecture, termed explicitly parallel instruction. Ia64 is the instruction set architecture isa of the itanium family of 64bit intel microprocessors. Search the worlds most comprehensive index of fulltext books. The itanium architecture includes a large number of registers 128 integers and 128 floating points. As many researchers into computer architecture discovered between the mid 1970s and 1980s, architecture can have a dramatic effect on the quality of an implementation.
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