The AltiVec TM technology is an extension to the PowerPC architecture TM which provides new computational and storage operations for handling vectors of various data lengths and data types. The first implementation using this technology is a low cost, low power processor based on the acclaimed PowerPC 750 TM microprocessor. This paper describes the microarchitecture and design of the vector arithmetic unit of this implementation.
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