Today, i am going to tell you about the AMD 64 Architecture overview. We are going to divide our session in few Blog Entries over a couple of days. I will cover the following topics :
+ Processor Overview
I. AMD64 Architecture Overview
+ Operating Modes
+ Register Set
+ Segmentation
+ Task Management
+ Interrupts and Exceptions
+ Demand Mode Paging
+ Instruction Set Extensions
+ x86 Virtualization Overview
II. CPU Microarchitecture
+ Processor Core Introduction and Terminology
+ Integer Pipeline
+ FPU Pipeline
+ Load/Store Unit
+ Caches
III. System Architecture
+ System Chip Components
+ Hypertransport
+ Configuration Space
+ PC Memory Technologies
+ System Power Up Process
+ APIC
+ Debug Registers
+ Performance Monitoring Registers
+ Machine Check Architecture
+ Power Management
Keep looking this blog for further explanations and details of CPU.
Keywords: architecture, CPU, Debug, Memory, power management, Segmentation, Virtualization
