The making of the PowerPC microprocessor

Author

DuPont, R. ; Bearden, D. ; Bailey, R. ; Rossbach, P.

Author_Institution

Somerset Design Center, IBM Corp., Austin, TX, USA

fYear

1995

fDate

15-17 Feb. 1995

Firstpage

22

Lastpage

25

Abstract

The alliance of Apple, IBM and Motorola was formed with the vision of designing a microprocessor family able to span the scope of systems from microcontrollers to supercomputers with a common instruction set architecture and able to run common applications on all of the systems built using these processors. The result was the PowerPC Architecture, a third-generation RISC architecture optimized for the diverse computing requirements of the future. The Somerset Design Center was set up with the mission to jointly develop microprocessors based on the PowerPC Architecture.

Keywords

computer architecture; instruction sets; microprocessor chips; reduced instruction set computing; Apple; IBM; Motorola; PowerPC microprocessor; RISC computing; Somerset Design Center; instruction set architecture; Computer architecture; Energy management; Manufacturing processes; Microprocessors; Operating systems; Power system management; Power system reliability; Process design; Reduced instruction set computing; Semiconductor device manufacture;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Solid-State Circuits Conference, 1995. Digest of Technical Papers. 41st ISSCC, 1995 IEEE International

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA, USA

ISSN

0193-6530

Print_ISBN

0-7803-2495-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISSCC.1995.535261

Filename

535261