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UltraSPARC T1™ Supplement to the UltraSPARC Architecture 2005 Draft D2.1, 14 May 2007 Privilege Levels: Hyperprivileged, Privileged, and Nonprivileged Distribution: Public Sun Microsystems, Inc. 4150 Network Circle Santa Clara, CA 95054 U.S.A. 650-960-1300 Part No.No: 8xx-xxxx-xx819-3404-05 ReleaseRevision: 1.0, Draft 2002 D2.1, 14 May 2007 ii UltraSPARC T1 Supplement • Draft D2.1, 14 May 2007 Copyright 2002-2006 Sun Microsystems, Inc., 4150 Network Circle • Santa Clara, CA 950540 USA. All rights reserved. This product or document is protected by copyright and distributed under licenses restricting its use, copying, distribution, and decompilation. No part of this product or document may be reproduced in any form by any means without prior written authorization of Sun and its licensors, if any. Third-party software, including font technology, is copyrighted and licensed from Sun suppliers. 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CETTE PUBLICATION EST FOURNIE "EN L’ETAT" ET AUCUNE GARANTIE, EXPRESSE OU IMPLICITE, N’EST ACCORDEE, Y COMPRIS DES GARANTIES CONCERNANT LA VALEUR MARCHANDE, L’APTITUDE DE LA PUBLICATION A REPONDRE A UNE UTILISATION PARTICULIERE, OU LE FAIT QU’ELLE NE SOIT PAS CONTREFAISANTE DE PRODUIT DE TIERS. CE DENI DE GARANTIE NE S’APPLIQUERAIT PAS, DANS LA MESURE OU IL SERAIT TENU JURIDIQUEMENT NUL ET NON AVENU. Comments and "bug reports” regarding this document are welcome; they should be submitted to email address: [email protected] iv UltraSPARC T1 Supplement • Draft D2.1, 14 May 2007 Contents Preface. .xv 1 UltraSPARC T1 Basics . 1 1.1 Background. 1 1.2 UltraSPARC T1 Overview. 3 1.3 [I can’t fix these, because it’s an imported diagram. A tool I don’t have might work. I tried “whiting” them out, unsuccessfully as you see.]UltraSPARC T1 Components4 1.3.1 SPARC Physical Core . 5 1.3.2 Floating-Point Unit (FPU) . 6 1.3.3 L2 Cache. 6 1.3.4 DRAM Controller . 6 1.3.5 IOB Unit . 6 1.3.6 JBUS Interface (JBI) . 7 1.3.7 SSI ROM Interface. 7 2 Data Formats . 9 3 Registers. 11 3.1 Ancillary State Registers (ASRs) . 11 3.1.1 TICK Register. 11 3.1.2 General Status Register (GSR) . 11 3.1.3 Software Interrupt Register (SOFTINT) . 12 3.1.4 Tick Compare Register (TICK_CMPR) . 12 3.1.5 System Tick Register (STICK) . 12 3.1.6 System Tick Compare Register (STICK_CMPR) . 13 3.1.7 PCR and PIC Registers. 13 3.2 PR State Registers . 13 3.2.1 Trap State (TSTATE) . 13 3.2.2 Processor State Register (PSTATE) . 13 3.2.3 Trap Level Register (TL) . 14 v 3.2.4 Global Level Register (GL) . 14 3.3 Floating-Point State Register (FSR) . 14 3.4 Hyperprivileged Registers . 14 3.4.1 Hyperprivileged Processor State Register (HPSTATE) . 15 3.4.2 Hyperprivileged Trap State Register (HSTATE) . 15 3.4.3 Hyperprivileged Interrupt Pending Register (HINTP) . 15 3.4.4 Hyperprivileged Trap Base Address Register (HTBA). 16 3.4.5 Hyperprivileged Version Register (HVER) . 16 3.4.6 Hyperprivileged System Tick Compare Register (HSTICK) . 16 3.4.7 Strand Status Register . 16 4 Instruction Set Overview . 19 4.1 State Register Access. 19 4.2 Floating-Point Operate (FPop) Instructions. 19 4.3 Reserved Opcodes and Instruction Fields . 20 4.4 Register Window Management . 20 5 Instruction Definitions . 21 5.1 Instruction Set Summary . 21 5.2 Prefetch and Prefetch from Alternate Space . 24 5.3 Trap on Integer Condition Codes (Tcc). 24 5.4 VIS Instructions . 24 5.5 Partitioned Add/Subtract Instructions . 25 5.6 Align Data . 25 5.7 F Register Logical Operate Instructions . 25 5.8 Block Load and Store Instructions. 26 6 Traps. .39 6.1 Trap Levels . 39 6.2 Traps to Hyperprivileged Mode . 39 6.3 Implementation-Dependent Exceptions. 40 6.4 Trap Behavior. 41 6.5 Trap Masking . 41 7 Interrupt Handling . 43 7.1 Overview . 43 7.2 Interrupt Flow . 44 7.2.1 Initialization . 44 7.2.2 Servicing . 44 7.2.3 Sources . 45 7.2.4 States . 45 7.2.5 Prioritizing. 46 vi UltraSPARC T1 Supplement • Draft D2.1, 14 May 2007 7.2.6 Dispatching . 46 7.3 IOB Interrupt Registers . 46 7.3.1 Interrupt Management Registers . 47 7.3.2 Interrupt/Trap Vector Dispatch Register. 49 7.3.3 JBUS Mondo Data Tables . 49 7.3.4 Mondo Interrupt Busy Table . 51 7.4 CPU Interrupt Registers . 51 7.4.1 Interrupt Receive Register . ..
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