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Preface: About This Guide
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General Conventions

Tabl e 1-1 lists the general no tat ional conventions used throughout this document.
Registers
Tabl e 1-2 lists the PowerPC 405 registers used in this document and their descriptive
names.

Table 1-1: General Notational Conventions

Convention Definition

mnemonic Instruction mnemonics are shown in lower-case bold.
variable Variable items are shown in italic.
ActiveLow An overbar indicates an active-low signal.
nA decimal number
0xnA hexadecimal number
0bnA binary number
OBJECTbA single bit in any object (a register, an instruction, an
address, or a field) is shown as a subscripted number or
name
OBJECTb:b A range of bits in any object (a register, an instruction,
an address, or a field)
OBJECTb,b, . . . A list of bits in any object (a register, an instruction, an
address, or a field)
REGISTER[FIELD] Fields within any register are shown in square brackets
REGISTER[FIELD, FIELD . . .]A
list of fields in any register
REGISTER[FIELD:FIELD] A range of fields in any register

Table 1-2: PowerPC 405 Registers

Register Descriptive Name

CCR0 Core-configuration register 0
DBCRnDebug-control register n
DBSR Debug-status register
ESR Exception-syndrome register
MSR Machine-state register
PIT Programmable-interval timer
TBL Time-base lower
TBU Time-base upper