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VAX 6000 Series Vector Processor
This chapter describes the vector processor module for the VAX 6000
series. The basic hardware is briefly described and then the hardware
components are discussed from the software perspective.
The chapter includes the following sections:
• Overview
• Block Diagram
• Vector Control Unit
• Arithmetic Unit
• Load/Store Unit
• Vector Processor Registers
• Memory Management
• Cache Memory
• Vector Pipelining
• Instruction Execution
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