PENTIUM PRO ARCHITECTURE
Written for CMSC411, Fall 1998, by:
Denise Reitan
Eliab Tarkghen
Yared Woldegebrial
INTRODUCTION
The Pentium Pro Processor, developed by Intel, is a
multiprocessor system designed to speed up applications and allow
technology to continue to progress. Although it seems as though
Intel is replacing the Pentium Pro (here), it introduced a
couple of advancements that are being incorporated into the new
designs. Probably the most important change was the use of
dynamic
execution rather than the superscalar architecture that was used in
the regular Pentium processor.
This website was designed to explain some of the features of the
Pentium Pro architecture. The three main features we are going to focus
on are the cashe, the system bus and the type of pipeline used. Our
goal is researching these was to show how some of the ideas dicussed in
Patterson and Hennessy's book, Computer Architecture: A
Quantitative Approach, relate to a real-life computer
architecture.
PENTIUM PRO FEATURES
CASHE
SYSTEM BUS
PIPELINE VARIETY
CONCLUSION
SUMMARY
REFERENCES
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Copyright 1998 by Denise
Reitan,
Eliab Tarkghen, and Yared Woldegebrial