PPE

{{Glossary

 |name=Programmable PowerPC-lite Engine
 |abbr=PPE
 |desc=A reduced PowerPC core design based on a subset of the PPC405.  Primarily used to handle power management functions in the form of one CME instance per SMT8 slice (one shared instance per [[SMT4] core).  Instances of the PPE are also used to implement the SBE, I/O PPE, and PB PPE.}}

References

• Modified GCC toolchain targeting the ppe42 architecture
• Modified binutils targeting the ppe42 architecture