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Chapter 3, "IA-32 Intel
description of all IA-32 Intel
performance of multimedia intensive applications. Organized in alphabetical order by
assembly language mnemonic.
Chapter 4, "IA-32 SSE Instruction Reference"
IA-32 SSE instructions designed to increase performance of multimedia intensive
applications, and is organized in alphabetical order by assembly language mnemonic.
1.5 Terminology
The following definitions are for terms related to the Itanium architecture and will be
used throughout this document:
Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) – Defines application and system level
resources. These resources include instructions and registers.
Itanium Architecture – The new ISA with 64-bit instruction capabilities, new
performance- enhancing features, and support for the IA-32 instruction set.
IA-32 Architecture – The 32-bit and 16-bit Intel architecture as described in the
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Intel 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer's Manual.
Itanium System Environment – The operating system environment that supports
the execution of both IA-32 and Itanium architecture-based code.
IA-32 System Environment – The operating system privileged environment and
resources as defined by the Intel Architecture Software Developer's Manual. Resources
include virtual paging, control registers, debugging, performance monitoring, machine
checks, and the set of privileged instructions.
Itanium
and System Abstraction Layer (SAL).
Processor Abstraction Layer (PAL) – The firmware layer which abstracts processor
features that are implementation dependent.
System Abstraction Layer (SAL) – The firmware layer which abstracts system
features that are implementation dependent.
1.6 Related Documents
The following documents can be downloaded at the Intel's Developer Site at
http://developer.intel.com:
• Dual-Core Update to the Intel® Itanium® 2 Processor Reference Manual
for Software Development and Optimization– Document number 308065
provides model-specific information about the dual-core Itanium processors.
• Intel
and Optimization – This document (Document number 251110) describes
Volume 4: About this Manual
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MMX™ Technology Instruction Reference"
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MMX™ technology instructions designed to increase
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Architecture-based Firmware – The Processor Abstraction Layer (PAL)
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Itanium 2 Processor Reference Manual for Software Development
provides a detailed
provides a detailed description of all
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