The AMD Opteron Northbridge architecture

IEEE Micro

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 10-21

  Conway, Pat ^a   Hughes, Bill ^a  

^a ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES   (United States)

Author keywords

Microarchitecture; Northbridge; Point to point networking; Scalability; System topology

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER HARDWARE; INTERCONNECTION NETWORKS; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); ROUTERS; TOPOLOGY;

POINT-TO-POINT NETWORKING; SYSTEM TOPOLOGY;

MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS;

EID: 34548238648     PISSN: 02721732     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MM.2007.43     Document Type: Conference Paper

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