Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 PowerPC Processor Architecture
Chapter 3 Architected system Memory Map
Chapter 4 Bring-Up and Configuration Architecture
Chapter 5 NVRAM Contents and Mapping
Chapter 6 Bus Unit Controller (BUC) Architecture
Chapter 7 IOCC Architecture
Chapter 8 System Resources
Chapter 9 External Interrupt Architecture
Chapter 10 System Exception Processing
Chapter 11 System Bus Architecture
Chapter 12 Bring-Up Function and IPLCB
Chapter 13 Vital Product Data (VPI)
Chapter 14 AIX Based Diagnostics Requirements
Appendix A Processor Dependencies
Appendix B Standard I/O Interface
Appendix C Target Market Categories
Appendix D Memory Controller Example
Appendix E System Exception Implementation Examples
Appendix F IPLCB Example
Appendix G AIX Dependencies on the IPLCB
Appendix H AIX Command and Event Indicators
Appendix I Power IOCC Arch. vs PowerPC IOCC Architecture
Appendix J 32/64 Bit BUC Arch. Differences & Considerations
Appendix K Big-Endian and Little-Endian Tutorial

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By International Business Machines, Inc.