Newnes Power PC Programming Pocket Book
Published on 7. July 1995
Book
Hardback
200 pages
978-0-7506-2111-3 (ISBN)
Description
Written by one of the foremost experts, Steve Heath, the processor technology specialist at Motorola (UK).* 200 pages packed with information for programmers * will complement the author's other Butterworth-Heinemann book ... The Power PC: a practical companion (which is aimed at users). * in the pocket book ... a simple overview of the processor and programming models * straightforward definitions (eg what bit 14 of the MSR does and not why it has to do it) * simple definitions of each instruction with two instructions per page
Reviews / Votes
"I recommend this to anyone who needs a compact, inexpensive book that summarises the most important features of the PowerPC 6xx chips." --CVu, September 1996More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Elsevier Science & Technology
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Programmers
Dimensions
Height: 252 mm
Width: 195 mm
Weight
210 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7506-2111-3 (9780750621113)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Senior Staff Engineer, European Strategy and Technology Development, Motorola Semiconductors, Steve Heath has written 15 books on topics covering Apple and IBM PCs, processor architectures, UNIX and Windows NT operating systems.
Content
MPC601 Programming model; The register set and its organisation; Register nomenclature; User and supervisor models; MCP603 Programming model; The register set and its organisation; Register nomenclature; User and supervisor models; Addressing models; Direct; Indirect; Memory model; Memory organisation; Accessing bytes, words, long words and 64 bit words; Instruction set; Integer; Floating point; Special; POWER; Appendix A CISC to Power PC programming hints.