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Intel Itanium Processor 9300 Series and 9500 Series

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Introduction<br />

Figure 1-1.<br />

<strong>Intel</strong> ® <strong>Itanium</strong> ® <strong>Processor</strong> <strong>9300</strong> <strong>Series</strong> <strong>Processor</strong> Block Diagram<br />

Core0<br />

Core1<br />

Core2<br />

Core3<br />

CPE0<br />

CPE1<br />

CPE2<br />

CPE3<br />

<strong>Intel</strong>® SMI<br />

<strong>Intel</strong>® SMI<br />

Pbox<br />

PZ0<br />

Zbox0 Bbox0<br />

8 7 3<br />

2<br />

Rbox<br />

0xA 0<br />

1 6 9 5<br />

4 0xB<br />

Bbox1 Zbox1<br />

Pbox<br />

PZ1<br />

<strong>Intel</strong>® SMI<br />

<strong>Intel</strong>® SMI<br />

Pbox<br />

PH4<br />

Pbox<br />

PR 0<br />

Pbox<br />

PR1<br />

Pbox<br />

PR 2<br />

Pbox<br />

PR 3<br />

Pbox<br />

PH5<br />

<strong>Intel</strong>®<br />

QPI<br />

<strong>Intel</strong>®<br />

QPI<br />

<strong>Intel</strong>®<br />

QPI<br />

<strong>Intel</strong>®<br />

QPI<br />

<strong>Intel</strong>®<br />

QPI<br />

<strong>Intel</strong>®<br />

QPI<br />

1.2.2 <strong>Intel</strong> ® <strong>Itanium</strong> ® <strong>Processor</strong> <strong>9500</strong> <strong>Series</strong> Overview<br />

The <strong>Intel</strong> ® <strong>Itanium</strong> ® <strong>Processor</strong> <strong>9500</strong> <strong>Series</strong> is an eight core architecture. It supports up<br />

to eight cores, each with its own First Level Cache (FLC) <strong>and</strong> Mid Level Cache (MLC),<br />

both of which are split into instruction <strong>and</strong> data caches (FLI/FLD <strong>and</strong> MLI/MLD,<br />

respectively). The Last Level Cache (LLC) is shared among the cores <strong>and</strong> supports up to<br />

32 MB. Also supported are the following page sizes for purges or inserts: 4K, 8K, 16K,<br />

64K, 256K, 1M, 4M, 16M, 64M, 256M, 1G, 4G.<br />

The architecture interfacing the cores to the system is referred to as the uncore. Each<br />

<strong>Intel</strong> ® <strong>Itanium</strong> ® <strong>Processor</strong> <strong>9500</strong> <strong>Series</strong> core interfaces to the Ring. The Ring provides<br />

connectivity to the Last Level Cache via the Cache Controllers (Cboxes). The Ring also<br />

provides connectivity to <strong>Intel</strong> QPI via Ring/Sbox. The Sbox <strong>and</strong> Cbox provide the<br />

supports for the two <strong>Intel</strong> QPI Caching Agents. The processor has two Home Agents<br />

(Bbox). The Bbox interfaces between the memory controller <strong>and</strong> the <strong>Intel</strong> ® QuickPath<br />

Interconnect <strong>and</strong> supports a directory cache. Each memory controller supports two<br />

<strong>Intel</strong> ® Scalable Memory Interconnects (<strong>Intel</strong> ® SMI) in lockstep. The <strong>Intel</strong> SMI are the<br />

interconnects to Scalable Memory Buffer. The <strong>Intel</strong> ® <strong>Itanium</strong> ® <strong>Processor</strong> <strong>9500</strong> <strong>Series</strong><br />

processor supports six <strong>Intel</strong> ® QuickPath Interconnects at the socket, four full width <strong>and</strong><br />

two half width. The Caching Agent, Home Agent, <strong>and</strong> <strong>Intel</strong> ® QuickPath Interconnects<br />

are connected via a 10-port Crossbar Router, each port supporting the <strong>Intel</strong> ® QuickPath<br />

Interconnect protocol. Figure 1-2 shows the processor block diagram.<br />

16 <strong>Intel</strong> ® <strong>Itanium</strong> ® <strong>Processor</strong> <strong>9300</strong> <strong>Series</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>9500</strong> <strong>Series</strong> Datasheet

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