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POWER1 and is
The POWER1 is a multi-chip CPU developed and fabricated by IBM that implemented the POWER instruction set architecture ( ISA ).
An indirect derivative of the POWER1 is the PowerPC 601, a feature-reduced variant of the RSC intended for consumer applications.
The POWER1 is notable as it represented a number firsts for IBM and computing in general.
The POWER1 is a 32-bit two-way superscalar CPU.
Although the POWER1 is a 32-bit CPU with a 32-bit physical address, its virtual address is 52 bits long.
The POWER1 is a multi-chip CPU built from separate chips that are connected to each other by buses.
The chips that make up the POWER1 is fabricated in a 1. 0 µm CMOS process with three layers of interconnect.
The total number of transistors featured by the POWER1, assuming that it is a RIOS-1 configuration, is 6. 9 million, with 2. 04 million used for logic and 4. 86 million used for memory.
In most processors, a multiply and an add, which is common in technical and scientific floating-point code, cannot be executed in one cycle, as in the POWER1.
The POWER1 is controlled by the SCU chip.
Compared to the POWER1, the RSC memory data bus is narrower and uses industry standard SIMMs instead of custom memory cards.

POWER1 and CPU
The RS / 6000 CPU had 2 configurations, called the " RIOS-1 " and " RIOS. 9 " ( or more commonly the " POWER1 " CPU ).
The CPU was the PowerPC, a single-chip version of IBM's POWER1 CPU.
For computing firsts, the POWER1 would be known for being the first CPU to implement some form of Register renaming and out-of-order execution, a technique that improves the performance of superscalar processors but was previously reserved for mainframes.
Although the POWER1 was a high-end design, it was not capable of multiprocessing, and as such was disadvantaged, as the only way performance could be improved was by clocking the CPU higher, which was difficult to do with such a large multi-chip design.
The RSC was a feature-reduced single-chip implementation of the POWER1, a multi-chip central processing unit ( CPU ) which implemented the POWER instruction set architecture ( ISA ).

POWER1 and cache
The POWER1 has a 64 KB data cache implemented through four identical data-cache units ( DCU ), each containing 16 KB of data cache.
The RSC has an 8 KB unified cache instead of the separate instruction and large data caches like the POWER1.

POWER1 and with
The POWER1 was introduced in 1990, with the introduction of the IBM RS / 6000 POWERserver servers and POWERstation workstations, which featured the POWER1 clocked at 20, 25 or 30 MHz.
The POWER1 received two upgrades, one in 1991, with the introduction of the POWER1 + and in 1992, with the introduction of POWER1 ++.
Like the POWER1, the memory controller and I / O was tightly integrated, with the functional units responsible for the functions: a memory interface unit and sequencer unit ; residing on the same die as the processor.

POWER1 and .
IBM started the POWER2 processor effort as a successor to the POWER1 two years before the creation of the 1991 Apple / IBM / Motorola alliance in Austin, Texas.
In 1990, IBM introduced the first out-of-order microprocessor, the POWER1, although out-of-order execution was limited to floating point instructions only.
These upgraded versions were clocked higher than the original POWER1, made possible by improved semiconductor processes.
The POWER1 + was clocked slightly higher than the original POWER1, at frequencies of 25, 33 and 41 MHz, while the POWER1 ++ took the microarchitecture to its highest frequencies — 25, 33, 41. 6, 45, 50 and 62. 5 MHz.
In September 1993, the POWER1 and its variants was succeeded by the POWER2 ( known briefly as the " RIOS2 "), an evolution of the POWER1 microarchitecture.
The direct derivatives of the POWER1 are the RISC Single Chip ( RSC ), feature-reduced single-chip variant for entry-level RS / 6000 systems, and the RAD6000, a radiation-hardened variant of the RSC for space applications.
The POWER1 was also the origin for the highly successful families of POWER, PowerPC and Power Architecture processors that followed it, measuring in hundreds of different implementations.
The open source GCC compiler removed support for POWER1 ( RIOS ) and POWER2 ( RIOS2 ) in the 4. 5 release.

is and big-endian
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Although MIDI is generally little-endian, the 4 time code bytes follow in big-endian order, followed by a " end of exclusive " byte.
< tt > MMIX </ tt > is a big-endian machine with 32-bit instructions and a 64-bit virtual address space.
The endianness of the 32-bit SPARC V8 architecture is purely big-endian.
This is followed by a 32-bit unsigned integer ( all integers in IFF files ' structure are big-endian ) specifying the size of the following data ( the chunk content ) in bytes.
However, when there is no BOM, and in the absence of a higher-level protocol, the byte order of the UTF-16 encoding scheme is big-endian.
Therefore the presumption of big-endian is widely ignored.
It is based on Electronic Arts ' Interchange File Format, introduced in 1985 on the Amiga 1000, the only difference being that multi-byte integers are in little-endian format, native to the 80x86 processor series used in IBM PCs, rather than the big-endian format native to the 68k processor series used in Amiga and Apple Macintosh computers, where IFF files were heavily used.
SBus is based on a big-endian 32-bit address and data bus, can run at speeds ranging from 16. 67 MHz to 25 MHz, and is capable of transferring up to 100 MB / s.
It is thus neither little-endian nor big-endian, though a compiler may use either convention if it implements 64-bit data and / or some way to pack multiple 8-bit or 16-bit values into a single 32-bit word.
A 3GP file is always big-endian, storing and transferring the most significant bytes first.
In another sense, the ARC standard is based on SGI's ARCS, which was used as a basis for generating the ARC standard itself, although ARC calls for a little-endian system while ARCS system is big-endian on all MIPS-based systems.
When encoding, each group of 4 bytes is taken as a 32-bit binary number, most significant byte first ( Ascii85 uses a big-endian convention ).
The frame header is packed into big-endian dwords.

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