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KimmoK 
Re: X1000 CPU clue :)
Posted on 29-Jun-2010 9:50:27
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Anyone yet snooped out what exact pins go to where, especially between PPC & xcore:
http://obligement.free.fr/gfx/amigaonex1000_nemo_schema.jpg
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A good explanation of Xenon:

http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2005/06/xbox360-2.ars


Really interesting...

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@lsorense
>The Power6+ is available at 5GHz from IBM, and is I believe dual core with dual >thread per core. The Power7 is 8 core, 4+Ghz, 4 threads per core.

>The one in the xbox is a slow chip compared to the last few generations of IBM >power chips.

yes but the power chips are too expensive.do you know what a power 6 or seven cost ?.I guess more than 2000$.

A ppc970 have 2 cores and so the 3 core 3,5 GHZ Xenon can maybe faster as 2,5 GHZ 2 Core.also Xenon can do Hyperthreading, this is good speedup for in order CPU.

@dax
>2 integer operations
>1 floating-point operation
>4 vector operations
>1 load/store operation

thats all in all 8 Units.

where you have read that pa6t have 4 vector units Each Core ?

in wikipedia stand

"""
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PWRficient

6 execution units including a double precision FPU and Altivec unit.
"""

so can only have 2 Vector Units

the units are split, g4 have 2 vector units 1 load/save convert and 1 calc.

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@bernd_afa
I didn't say it has 4 vector units, I was quoting this article:

http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2007/02/8828.ars

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@DAX
>I didn't say it has 4 vector units, I was quoting this article:

the pa6t is really a mystic CPU, when you look in wikipedia here stand 10 Million transistors

and on your link stand

(The PA6T has 200 million transistors total).

A G4 have too 10- 11 Million Transistors, but need less transistors because have smaller cache.

that pa5t have 200 million transistors and is 65 nm design and need only 5-13 Watt average, i also cant believe.

there are no wonders possible lower power usage you can only get with less transistors, or smaller structuresBut less transistors result in simpler design and slower speed

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Here can see a shematics image of pa6

http://www.tecchannel.de/_misc/img/detail.cfm?pk=346839&fk=432756&id=il-74075580158280914

Its on a german ariticle

http://www.tecchannel.de/test_technik/news/432756/fpf_pwrficient_multi_core_cpu_mit_virtualisierung/index2.html

the VMX untis are really split in 2 special units.

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@bernd_afa
it would seem, that they use very complex techniques for saving power, so complex in fact that the guy from arstechnica lamented the ultra complex talk: "The presenters get deep, deep into the weeds of clock tree design, clock synchronization, SRAM cell design, interconnect pitches, thermal profiling, and a whole bunch of other stuff that very few people understands"

They also mention that: " the chip sports over 25,000 clock gates so that clock pulses to different regions of the processor can be shut off dynamically to save power. "

P.S.
So each core has a VMX unit that is internally divided into 2 parts?

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Don't forget in all that numbers dancing game that Xenon is an in-order execution CPU.

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@bernd_afa

Same pic also here, this time the (longer) text is in english:
http://rram.spaces.eepw.com.cn/articles/article/item/77329

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Quote:

mips" aren't that Hot these days, and that vector units are way more important.


The G4 on the AmigaONe has a vector unit IMR AOS4 doesn't make any use of it. Maybe they will change this suddenly.

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@Arko

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The G4 on the AmigaONe has a vector unit IMR AOS4 doesn't make any use of it. Maybe they will change this suddenly.


Any proof of that statement?

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@Arko

The problem is that VMX unit is too rare in the AOS community.
(situation seems far better in MOS side, most boards have G4&Altivec)

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@KimmoK
Anyway, your linked article cinfirms that the PA6T has 2 VMX units per core, one for simple SIMD and one for complex SIMD operations.

The entire text shows that it is more advanced than G5 in many areas (it's not just more L1 cache as it treats data in a more advanced way in many instances).

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@DAX

PA6T seems almost too good to be true. It has very high bandwidth all around the SOC + RAM (the best in RISC world?). It will be very interesting to see how it performs in desktop tasks. I believe that there are many (non Amiga) "geeks" that wan't to buy it just to play with the most modern PPC CPU. (IIRC, PA6T evaluation boards cost several thousands more)


(IIRC, G5 was (about) the first POWER core based chip that had VMX, so it's not too surpricing if PA Semi managed to improve from that. I think latest G4 models had far more "polished" Altivec implementation. G4's "only" handicap seems to be the bandwidth to/from the CPU.)

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@KimmoK
The article also says it has better handling of Cisc instructions compared to G4/G5 (it can execute many of them natively instead of breaking them down first) I wonder if that feature will be of any help in Desktop applications.

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@pavlor

Quote:

pavlor wrote:
@Arko

Any proof of that statement?


No I have never seen any aouncement about a future Altivec support in AOS4

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@KimmoK

Quote:

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@Arko

The problem is that VMX unit is too rare in the AOS community.
(situation seems far better in MOS side, most boards have G4&Altivec)


It was my impressions as if there where mor G4 A1 or PegII around than Sam440

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@Arko

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No I have never seen any aouncement about a future Altivec support in AOS4


Announced and introduced there

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@pavlor

Quote:

pavlor wrote:
@Arko

Quote:
No I have never seen any aouncement about a future Altivec support in AOS4


Announced and introduced there


So Alivec support is restricted to AOS4.0 pre release, that explains why it is not widely in use in AOS4.1 on A1 or PegII

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@Arko
if it was "restricted" there would be no use at all on 4.1. Mplayer uses Altivec on AOS4.1 don't know what other programs make use of it.

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