IBM POWER6 microarchitecture
- H. Q. Le,
- W. J. Starke,
- J. S. Fields,
- F. P. O'Connell,
- D. Q. Nguyen,
- B. J. Ronchetti,
- W. M. Sauer,
- E. M. Schwarz,
- M. T. Vaden
This paper describes the implementation of the IBM POWER6™ microprocessor, a two-way simultaneous multithreaded (SMT) dual-core chip whose key features include binary compatibility with IBM POWER5™ microprocessor-based systems; increased functional ...
IBM POWER6 accelerators: VMX and DFU
- L. Eisen,
- J. W. Ward,
- H.-W. Tast,
- N. Mäding,
- J. Leenstra,
- S. M. Mueller,
- C. Jacobi,
- J. Preiss,
- E. M. Schwarz,
- S. R. Carlough
The IBM POWER6™ microprocessor core includes two accelerators for increasing performance of specific workloads. The vector multimedia extension (VMX) provides a vector acceleration of graphic and scientific workloads. It provides single instructions ...
IBM POWER6 microprocessor physical design and design methodology
- R. Berridge,
- R. M. Averill,
- A. E. Barish,
- M. A. Bowen,
- P. J. Camporese,
- J. DiLullo,
- P. E. Dudley,
- J. Keinert,
- D. W. Lewis,
- R. D. Morel,
- T. Rosser,
- N. S. Schwartz,
- P. Shephard,
- H. H. Smith,
- D. Thomas,
- P. J. Restle,
- J. R. Ripley,
- S. L. Runyon,
- P. M. Williams
The IBM POWER6™ microprocessor is a 790 million-transistor chip that runs at a clock frequency of greater than 4 GHz. The complexity and size of the POWER6 microprocessor, together with its high operating frequency, present a number of significant ...
Power-constrained high-frequency circuits for the IBM POWER6 microprocessor
The IBM POWER6™ microprocessor is a high-frequency (>5-G Hz) microprocessor fabricated in the IBM 65-nm silicon-on-insulator (SOI) complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) process technology. This paper describes the circuit, physical design, ...
System power management support in the IBM POWER6 microprocessor
The IBM POWER6™ microprocessor chip supports advanced, dynamic power management solutions for managing not, just the chip but the entire server. The design facilitates a programmable power management solution for greater flexibility and integration into ...
IBM POWER6 SRAM arrays
The IBM POWER6™ microprocessor presented new challenges to array design because of its high-frequency requirement and its use of 65-nm silicon-on-insulator (SOI) technology. Advancements in performance (2X to 3X improvement over the 90-nm generation) ...
IBM POWER6 partition mobility: moving virtual servers seamlessly between physical systems
This paper presents the IBM Power Architecture™ extension for enhanced virtualization that is first implemented in the POWER6™ processor. Virtual partition memory enables all of the memory of a virtual server running in a logical partition to be made ...
IBM POWER6 reliability
This paper describes the state-of-the art reliability features of the IBM POWER6™ microprocessor. The POWER6 microprocessor includes a high degree of detection of soft and hard errors in both dataflow and control logic, as well as a feature--instruction ...
Energyscale for IBM POWER6 microprocessor-based systems
- H.-Y. McCreary,
- M. A. Broyles,
- M. S. Floyd,
- A. J. Geissler,
- S. P. Hartman,
- F. L. Rawson,
- T. J. Rosedahl,
- J. C. Rubio,
- M. S. Ware
With increasing processor speed and density, denser system packaging, and other technology advances, system power and heat have become important design considerations. The introduction of new technology including denser circuits, improved lithography, ...