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Pentium 4 and IA-32 ISA. Kyungseok Kim. Nov. 3, 2006. ELEC 5200/6200 Computer Architecture and Design, Fall 2006 Lectured by Dr. V. Agrawal. IA-32 ISA (CISC). The term means Intel Architecture, 32-bit (sometimes called i386)
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Pentium 4 and IA-32 ISA Kyungseok Kim Nov. 3, 2006 ELEC 5200/6200 Computer Architecture and Design, Fall 2006 Lectured by Dr. V. Agrawal
IA-32 ISA (CISC) • The term means Intel Architecture, 32-bit (sometimes called i386) • Instruction Set Architecture of Intel’s most successful microprocessors, called x86-32 • 32-bit extension of the original Intel x86 processor architecture, 16-bit • 64-bit architecture IA-64, Itanium Architecture • IA-32 expanded by AMD in 2003 to support natively 64-bit, AMD64 (AMD K8 family) • IA-32e (NetBurst family, Intel Pentium4 and Xeon), later called EM64T • AMD64 and EM64T are backwards compatible with 32-bit code without any performance loss 1
Real Mode -8086, 8088 in DOS -Addressing only the first 1MB of memory -Segment address + Offset address -Segment address: The beginning address of any 64KB memory segment -Offset address: Select any location within the 64KB Memory segment Two Memory Management 2
Protected Mode - 80286 and above in Windows, Linux and others - Allows the access to data and programs located above the first 1MB of memory - Descriptor decides the memory segment’s location, length, and access rights. Two Memory Management 3
Very small number of general purpose registers (approx. 4 integer plus 8 FP, versus 32+32 typical RISC) Small number of registers makes spilling more frequent Advanced compiler techniques increase register pressure. Partial specialization of the registers makes effective compiler scheduling difficult. Registers 4
Classic CISC set derived from extended accumulator architecture Improved orthogonality in the 32-bit extensions (80386) Added FP capabilities previously on a coprocessor (80486) Added MultiMedia Extensions MMX as SIMD (single-instruction multiple-data) integer instructions (Pentium II) Added Streaming SIMD Extension SSE, most notably consisting of SIMD FP instructions (Pentium III) Added SSE2, essentially extension of MMX+SSE to 128 bits (Pentium 4) IA-32 Instructions, since mid-80’s 5
One instr. Coded on 1 to 17 bytes in original IA-32 Several types of modifiers/ prefixes Two combinations of constants of variable length -Immediate and Displacement -8, 16, and 32-bit Instruction Encoding 6
Pentium 4 • Seventh-Generation x86 architecture by Intel (NetBurst) • Very deep instruction pipeline with the intention of scaling to very high frequencies • The SSE2 instruction set for faster SIMD integer, and 64bit floating point • Later Pentium 4 models introduced new technological advances such as Hyper-Threading, a feature to make one physical CPU appear as two logical and virtual CPUs. 8
Conclusion • IA-32 is the oldest important ISA around • It is not absolutely fixed but constantly evolving with many new add-on (MMX, SSE, SSE2, etc.) • Intel has managed to continue pushing the performance by adapting to its CICS nature the techniques developed to speed-up newer RISC Processors • IA-32 is evolving toward 64 bits
Reference • http://www.intel.com • http://lapwww.epfl.ch/courses/archord2/ • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IA-32 • http://www.cs.pitt.edu/~cho/cs2410/currentsemester/handouts/