PowerPC Architecture Documentation


The PowerPC architecture is a rather new RISC architecture designed by IBM. Its used within their UNIX server systems and the most common operating system running on it is AIX (AIX runs on other IBM RISC architectures such as POWER).


File Size Description Source
PowerPC_6xx_The_Programming_Environments.pdf 2600 kb Covers the most interesting stuff (chapter 8: Instruction set reference) IBM
PPC_603e_User_Manual.pdf 1040 kb PowerPC 603e hardware manual IBM
PPC_603_User_Manual_Errata.pdf 105 kb ... and the errata to it IBM
PPC_604e_User_Manual.pdf 1195 kb PowerPC 604e hardware manual IBM
PPC_750_User_Manual.pdf 2440 kb PowerPC 750 hardware manual IBM


There is further information available from the IBM hardware document library, the IBM PowerPC library and the IBM Unix server library (which includes infos about AIX).
Thanks to Kobaiashi for providing the links and files to me :-)