
About This Book
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About This Book
The primary objective of this users manual is to deTne the functionality of the MPC7400
and MPC740 microprocessors for use by software and hardware developers. Although the
emphasis of this manual is upon the MPC7400, unless otherwise noted, all information here
applies to MPC740. This book is intended as a companion to the
PowerPC
a
Microprocessor Family: The Programming Environments
(referred to as
The Programming
Environments Manual
).
About the Companion
Programming Environments Manual
The
MPC7400 RISC Microprocessor Users Manual
, which
describes MPC7400 features not deTned by the architecture, is
to be used with the
PowerPC Microprocessor Family: The
Programming Environments
, Rev. 1, referred to as
The
Programming Environments Manual
.
Because the PowerPC architecture is designed to be exible to
support a broad range of processors,
The Programming
Environments Manual
provides a general description of
features that are common to PowerPC processors and indicates
those features that are optional or that may be implemented
differently in the design of each processor.
Note that
The
Programming Environments Manual
exists in
two versions.
PowerPC Microprocessor Family: The
Programming Environments
, Rev. 1
describes features of the
PowerPC architecture for both 64- and 32-bit implementations.
This version may be more useful if migration to 64-bit
processors is critical to the reader.
PowerPC Microprocessor
Family: The Programming Environments
for 32-Bit
Microprocessors
, Rev. 1
describes features of the PowerPC
architecture only for 32-bit implementations. Because it
describes only those features that support 32-bit processors,
this manual may be more practical if the reader is concerned
primarily with the MPC7400 processor.
Contact your sales representative for a copy of
The
Programming Environments Manual.