
MPC7448 RISC Microprocessor Hardware Specifications, Rev. 4
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Comparison with the MPC7447A, MPC7447, MPC7445, and MPC7441
• Reliability and serviceability
— Parity checking on system bus
— Parity checking on the L1 caches and L2 data tags
— ECC or parity checking on L2 data
3 Comparison with the MPC7447A, MPC7447, MPC7445,
and MPC7441
Table 1 compares the key features of the MPC7448 with the key features of the earlier MPC7447A,
MPC7447, MPC7445, and MPC7441. All are based on the MPC7450 RISC microprocessor and are
architecturally very similar. The MPC7448 is identical to the MPC7447A, but the MPC7448 supports 1
Mbyte of L2 cache with ECC and the use of dynamic frequency switching (DFS) with more bus-to-core
ratios.
Table 1. Microarchitecture Comparison
Microarchitectural Specs MPC7448 MPC7447A MPC7447 MPC7445 MPC7441
Basic Pipeline Functions
Logic inversions per cycle 18
Pipeline stages up to execute 5
Total pipeline stages (minimum) 7
Pipeline maximum instruction throughput 3 + branch
Pipeline Resources
Instruction buffer size 12
Completion buffer size 16
Renames (integer, float, vector) 16, 16, 16
Maximum Execution Throughput
SFX 3
Vector 2 (any 2 of 4 units)
Scalar floating-point 1
Out-of-Order Window Size in Execution Queues
SFX integer units 1 entry × 3 queues
Vector units In order, 4 queues
Scalar floating-point unit In order
Branch Processing Resources
Prediction structures BTIC, BHT, link stack
BTIC size, associativity 128-entry, 4-way
BHT size 2K-entry
Link stack depth 8
Unresolved branches supported 3
Branch taken penalty (BTIC hit) 1
Minimum misprediction penalty 6
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