Technical data

VAX 6000 Series Vector Processor
Figure 2–1 Scalar/Vector Pair Block Diagram
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XMI Bus
Vector Control Unit
VECTL Chip
CPU-Chip
Arithmetic
Pipelines
Cache
F-Chip
C-Chip
Duplicate
Tag Store
XMI
Interface
Load/Store
and
XMI interface
DAL
VIB
Cable
Cache Data Bus
(CD Bus)
VECTOR PROCESSORSCALAR PROCESSOR
2.2 BLOCK DIAGRAM
The FV64A module is divided into three separate functional units:
• Vector control unit
• Arithmetic unit
• Load/store unit
All three functional units can operate independently. Figure 2–2 is a
block diagram of the vector module.
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