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Northbridge Architecture of AMD's Griffin Microprocessor Family
March/April 2008 (vol. 28 no. 2)
pp. 10-18
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Jonathan Owen, Maurice Steinman, "Northbridge Architecture of AMD's Griffin Microprocessor Family," IEEE Micro, vol. 28, no. 2, pp. 10-18, March/April, 2008.
 
 
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@article{ 10.1109/MM.2008.29,
author = {Jonathan Owen and Maurice Steinman},
title = {Northbridge Architecture of AMD's Griffin Microprocessor Family},
journal ={IEEE Micro},
volume = {28},
number = {2},
issn = {0272-1732},
year = {2008},
pages = {10-18},
doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MM.2008.29},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
}
 
 
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TY - MGZN
JO - IEEE Micro
TI - Northbridge Architecture of AMD's Griffin Microprocessor Family
IS - 2
SN - 0272-1732
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EP18
EPD - 10-18
A1 - Jonathan Owen,
A1 - Maurice Steinman,
PY - 2008
KW - Hot Chips 19
KW - processors
KW - data communications devices
KW - I/O and data communications
KW - low-power design
KW - power management
VL - 28
JA - IEEE Micro
ER -
 
Demands for mobility and portability have driven microprocessor and system manufacturers to innovate in the areas of power and thermal management and efficiency. Cost and space, meanwhile, have driven manufacturers toward unified memory architectures for CPU and graphics, further complicating power management. AMD's Griffin microprocessor, optimized for mobile computing platforms, introduces several northbridge innovations to manage power without diminishing performance.

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Index Terms:
Hot Chips 19, processors, data communications devices, I/O and data communications, low-power design, power management
Citation:
Jonathan Owen, Maurice Steinman, "Northbridge Architecture of AMD's Griffin Microprocessor Family," IEEE Micro, vol. 28, no. 2, pp. 10-18, Mar./Apr. 2008, doi:10.1109/MM.2008.29
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