Pentium Pro and Pentium II system architecture

de Tom Shanley, MindShare Inc. · Publicada por primera vez en 1998

This book details the internal architecture of these two processors, describing their hardware and software characteristics, the bus protocol they use to communicate with the system, the BIOS update feature, and the overall machine architecture. This book is written for hardware and software engineers, offering insights into how the Pentium Pro and Pentium II family of processors translates legacy x86 code into RISC instructions, executes them out of order, and then reassembles the result to match the original program flow. In detailing the Pentium Pro and Pentium II processors' internal operations, this book reveals why the processors generate various transaction types and how they monitor bus traffic generated by other entities to ensure cache consistency.