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Motorola & IBM’s PowerPC

Motorola & IBM’s PowerPC. Overview of. Wesley Davis. IBM’s first attempts at RISC. PC/RT workstation ROMP CPU POWER architecture. Motorola + IBM+ Apple. Designed PowerPC architecture PowerOpen Environment specification Apple & IBM: Taligent OS for PowerOpen spec & PowerPC

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Motorola & IBM’s PowerPC

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  1. Motorola & IBM’s PowerPC Overview of Wesley Davis

  2. IBM’s first attempts at RISC • PC/RT workstation • ROMP CPU • POWER architecture

  3. Motorola + IBM+ Apple • Designed PowerPC architecture • PowerOpen Environment specification • Apple & IBM: Taligent • OS for PowerOpen spec & PowerPC • Disbanded in 1995 • Common Hardware Reference Platform (CHRP)

  4. First-Generation PowerPC (G1) • First PowerPC chip produced: 601 • Apple PowerMac 6100 • IBM RS/6000 • Embedded applications: • IBM 4xx, Motorola 5xx, 8xx

  5. Second-Generation (G2) • Desktop/Servers: 602, 603, 604, 620 • 603e, 604e: first 200MHz desktop CPU • 620: 64-bit server CPU • 603q & x704: third-party G2 processors • Embedded applications: • 5xxx, 82xxx, E603e • E603e: first 300MHz embedded CPU

  6. Third-Generation (G3) • Desktop/Servers: 750, 755 • 750: world’s first copper-based CPU • 750FX: first 1000MHz CPU • Multiprocessing capable • Embedded applications: 740, 745 • 740: First 400MHz embedded CPU • 740: First copper-based embedded CPU

  7. Forth-Generation (G4) • 74xx series • Copper-based • Multiprocessor configurations • AltiVec Technology / Velocity Engine • Answer to Intel’s MMX • Vector math unit on CPU • 160 new instructions for PowerPC ISA

  8. Fifth-Generation (G5) • PPC 8500 • 64-bit clean • Copper-based • Silicon-On-Insulator (SOI) design • Multiprocessor configurations • AltiVec Technology

  9. Apple Computer • PowerMac • 601, 603, 604, G3, G4 • PowerBook • 601, 603, 604, G3, G4 • iMac • First series: G3 • Second series: G4 • iBook • G3

  10. BeBox • Dual 603 • 66MHz and 133MHz configurations • Custom hardware/software for MP on 603 • 603 did not natively support MP • PC-style hardware • ISA bus, PCI bus • Modems, network adaptors, video cards, sound • AT-keyboard (no ADB)

  11. Nintendo GameCube • “Gekko” • Custom 405MHz PowerPC processor

  12. Operating Systems • Apple MacOS • Microsoft Windows NT • BeOS • IBM AIX, OS/2 • BSD • Linux • Others…

  13. Apple MacOS • Version 7: • First to support PowerPC Macintosh • Version 8: • New GUI, 8.5 was first to be PPC-only • Version 9: • Further GUI improvements • Version 10: • Rewritten OS: Darwin BSD core

  14. Microsoft Windows NT • NT 3.51 and 4.0 • Platform support: • Intel x86 • PowerPC • DEC Alpha • MIPS

  15. BeOS • Designed for dual-603 BeBoxes • Released for other PowerPC machines • Apple would not give G3 specs • BeOS developed for x86 • Be, Inc. now out of business • Sold property and materials to Palm, Inc.

  16. IBM • AIX • Basis of PowerOpen spec • Ported to IBM PowerPCs and PowerMacs • OS/2 • IBM desktop OS, also for x86 • Developed with Microsoft • Basis for Windows NT

  17. UNIX-like operating systems • BSD • FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD • Supports many hardware platforms • Apple Darwin: core of MacOS X • Ported to x86 • Linux • Originally designed for x86 • Support for almost any hardware platform • LinuxPPC, MkLinux, Linux-Mandrake PPC

  18. Other operating systems • QNX Neutrino • AmigaOS • LynxOS • ChorusOS • PowerMAX OS • OS-9

  19. Real-Time Embedded OS • VRTX • Nucleus

  20. Benchmarks • BYTEmark • SPEC95

  21. BYTEmark Test Results

  22. SPEC95 Test Results

  23. PowerPC

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