Table i. Acronyms and Abbreviated Terms (continued)
Term
USART
Universal synchronous/asynchronous receiver/transmitter
USB
Universal serial bus
VA
Virtual address
VEA
Virtual environment architecture
XER
Register used primarily for indicating conditions such as carries and overflows for integer operations
PowerPC Architecture Terminology Conventions
Table ii lists certain terms used in this manual that differ from the architecture terminology
conventions.
The Architecture Specification
Data storage interrupt (DSI)
Extended mnemonics
Instruction storage interrupt (ISI)
Interrupt
Privileged mode (or privileged state)
Problem mode (or problem state)
Real address
Relocation
Storage (locations)
Storage (the act of)
Table iii describes instruction field notation conventions used in this manual.
The Architecture Specification
BA, BB, BT
BF, BFA
D
DS
FLM
xc
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Table iii. Instruction Field Conventions
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Meaning
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DSI exception
Simplified mnemonics
ISI exception
Exception
Supervisor-level privilege
User-level privilege
Physical address
Translation
Memory
Access
Equivalent to:
crbA, crbB, crbD (respectively)
crfD, crfS (respectively)
d
ds
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