Title :
The AMD Opteron™ CMP NorthBridge architecture: Now and in the future
Author :
Pat Conway;Bill Hughes
Author_Institution :
AMD, USA
Abstract :
This article consists of a collection of slides from the author´s conference presentation on AMD´s Opteron, the company´s dual-core 64-bit x86 processor. Some of the specific topics discussed include: the features and system specifications of Opteron; memory management facilities; a comparison of previous and current system architectures; the BorthBridge command processing flow architecture; and planned next generation of processor technologies.
Keywords :
"Product design","Memory management","Microprocessors","Universal Serial Bus","System-on-chip","Scalability"
Conference_Titel :
Hot Chips 18 Symposium (HCS), 2006 IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/HOTCHIPS.2006.7477747