4 effect of alignment in data transfers, Table 8-3, Burst ordering—32-bit bus – IBM POWERPC 750GL User Manual

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User’s Manual
IBM PowerPC 750GX and 750GL RISC Microprocessor

Bus Interface Operation

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gx_08.fm.(1.2)

March 27, 2006

8.3.2.4 Effect of Alignment in Data Transfers

Table 8-4

lists the aligned transfers that can occur on the 750GX bus. These are transfers in which the data

is aligned to an address that is an integral multiple of the size of the data. For example, Table 8-4 shows that
1-byte data is always aligned. However, for a 4-byte word to be aligned, it must be oriented on an address
that is a multiple of four.

Table 8-3. Burst Ordering—32-Bit Bus

Data Transfer

For Starting Address:

A[27–28] = 00

A[27–28] = 01

A[27–28] = 10

A[27–28] = 11

First data beat

DW0-U

DW1-U

DW2-U

DW3-U

Second data beat

DW0-L

DW1-L

DW2-L

DW3-L

Third data beat

DW1-U

DW2-U

DW3-U

DW0-U

Fourth data beat

DW1-L

DW2-L

DW3-L

DW0-L

Fifth data beat

DW2-U

DW3-U

DW0-U

DW1-U

Sixth data beat

DW2-L

DW3-L

DW0-L

DW1-L

Seventh data beat

DW3-U

DW0-U

DW1-U

DW2-U

Eighth data beat

DW3-L

DW0-L

DW1-L

DW2-L

Note:

A[29–31] are always 0b000 for burst transfers by the 750GX.
“U” and “L” represent the upper and lower word of the double word respectively.

Table 8-4. Aligned Data Transfers

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Transfer Size

TSIZ0

TSIZ1

TSIZ2

A[29–31]

Data-Bus Byte Lane(s)

0

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

Byte

0

0

1

000

x

0

0

1

001

x

0

0

1

010

x

0

0

1

011

x

0

0

1

100

x

0

0

1

101

x

0

0

1

110

x

0

0

1

111

x

Half word

0

1

0

000

x

x

0

1

0

010

x

x

0

1

0

100

x

x

0

1

0

110

x

x

Note: The entries with an “x” indicate the byte portions of the requested operand that are read or written during a bus transaction.
The entries with a “–” are not required and are ignored during read transactions, and they are driven with undefined data during all write
transactions.

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