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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.
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
model-specific architectural features incorporated into the Intel
processor, the second processor based on the Itanium architecture.
• Intel
This document (Document number 245320) describes model-specific architectural
features incorporated into the Intel
on the Itanium architecture.
Volume 3: 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
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Itanium Processor Reference Manual for Software Development –
provides a detailed description of all
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