Northbridge Architecture of AMD's Griffin Microprocessor Family

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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 SP10 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 -

Jonathan Owen, AMD

Maurice Steinman, AMD

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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.

1. 10 HyperTransport I/O Link Specification, revision 3.00c, HyperTransport Consortium, Sept. 2007, http://hypertransport.org/docucontrolHTC20051222-0046-0023.pdf .2. Advanced Configuration and Power Interface Specification, revision 3.0b, Oct. 2006, http://www.acpi.info/DOWNLOADSACPIspec30b.pdf .3. MobileMark 2005, white paper, revision 1.0, Business Applications Performance Corp., May 2005, http://www.bapco.com/techdocsMobileMark2005WhitePaper.pdf .4. System Management Bus (SMBus) Specification, version 2.0, System Management Interface Forum, Aug. 2003, http://smbus.org/specssmbus20.pdf.

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Hot Chips 19, processors, data communications devices, I/O and data communications, low-power design, power management

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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, Mar./Apr. 2008, doi:10.1109/MM.2008.29

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