PowerPC visual simulator: peeking under the hood of the PowerPC engine

Author

Armstead, M. ; Cogswell, M. ; Halverson, S. ; Musta, T.

Author_Institution

IBM Corp., Rochester, MN, USA

fYear

1994

fDate

10-12 Oct 1994

Firstpage

413

Lastpage

418

Abstract

The first suite of Power PC processors such as the PowerPC 601 and PowerPC 603 are making their way into both desktop and special purpose hardware applications. Additional PowerPC processors are being developed including processors designed for the high-end server and workstation market as well as those which function efficiently in real-time embedded control applications. In this paper, the PowerPC visual simulator (PVS) is introduced. Following this, several PowerPC application scenarios are described. Each of these scenarios focuses on a common software analysis or testing problem. PowerPC solutions to these problems are explored using the PVS tool

Keywords

digital simulation; graphical user interfaces; microprocessor chips; PowerPC 601; PowerPC 603; PowerPC engine; PowerPC visual simulator; common software analysis; high-end server; real-time embedded control applications; workstation market; Application software; Computer architecture; Engines; Graphical user interfaces; Ground penetrating radar; Hardware; Power system modeling; Registers; Software testing; Workstations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Design: VLSI in Computers and Processors, 1994. ICCD '94. Proceedings., IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Cambridge, MA

Print_ISBN

0-8186-6565-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCD.1994.331939

Filename

331939