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ATI R700 Technology
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Copyright © 2009 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. All rights reserved.
Preface
About This Document
This document describes the instruction set architecture (ISA) native to the R700
family of processors. It defines the instructions and formats accessible to
programmers and compilers.
The document serves two purposes.
It specifies the instructions (including the format of each type of instruction)
and the relevant program state (including how the program state interacts
with the instructions). Some instruction fields are mutually dependent; not all
possible settings for all fields are legal. This document specifies the valid
combinations.
It provides the programming guidelines for compiler writers to maximize
processor performance.
For a historical understanding of the software environment from which the R700
family of processors were developed, see the ATI CTM Guide, Technical
Reference Manual, which describes the interface by which a host controls an
R700-family processor. In this document, the term “R700” refers the entire family
of R700 processors.
Audience
This document is intended for programmers writing application and system
software, including operating systems, compilers, loaders, linkers, device drivers,
and system utilities; it is specifically for those who want to maximize software
performance. It assumes that programmers are writing compute-intensive parallel
applications (streaming applications) and assumes an understanding of requisite
programming practices.
Organization
This document begins with an overview of the R700 family of processors’
hardware and programming environment (Chapter 1). Chapter 2 describes the
organization of an R700-family program and the program state that is maintained.
Chapter 3 describes the control flow (CF) programs. Chapter 4 the ALU clauses.
Chapter 5 describes the vertex-fetch clauses. Chapter 6 describes the texture-
fetch clauses. Chapter 9 describes instruction details, first by broad categories,
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