The AMD Opteron™ CMP NorthBridge architecture: Now and in the future

This article consists of a collection of slides from the author's conference presentation on AMD's Opteron, the company's dual-core 64-bit x86 processor. Some of the specific topics discussed include: the features and system specifications of Opteron; memory management facilities; a comparison of previous and current system architectures; the BorthBridge command processing flow architecture; and planned next generation of processor technologies.