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Product Description Pentium(R) Pro and Pentium(R) II System Architecture, Second Edition, details the internal architecture of these two processors, describing their hardware and software characteristics, the bus protocol they use to communicate with the system, and the overall machine architecture. It also describes the BIOS Update Feature. Written for computer hardware and software engineers, this book offers insight into how the Pentium Pro and Pentium II family of processors translates legacy x86 code into RISC instructions, executes them out-of-order, and then reassembles the result to match the original program flow. In detailing the Pentium Pro and Pentium II processors' internal operations, the book reveals why the processors generate various transaction types and how they monitor bus traffic generated by other entities to ensure cache consistency. This new edition includes comprehensive coverage of the Pentium II processor. It highlights the differences between the Pentium Pro and Pentium II processors, in particular, the Slot 1 connector and the processor cartridge design utilized by the Pentium II and intended for use in future Intel processors. It features the Pentium II's support for the MMX instruction set and registers, and shows how it is optimized for 16-bit code execution. This book also describes the Pentium II's L2 cache and its support for power-conservation modes. Pentium(R) Pro and Pentium(R) II System Architecture, Second Edition, also covers: the relationship of Pentium Pro and Pentium II processors to other processors, PCI bridges, caches, and memory detailed descriptions of the data, code, and L2 caches power-on configuration and processor startup transaction deferral instruction, register set, paging, and interrupt enhancements to the Pentium Pro and Pentium II BIOS Update Feature Machine Check Architecture performance monitoring and the Time Stamp Counter MMX register and instruction set supported by the Pentium II overview of the Intel 450KX, 450GX, and 440FX chipsets The PC System Architecture Series is a crisply written and comprehensive set of guides to the most important PC hardware standards. Each title is designed to illustrate the relationship between the software and hardware and explains thoroughly the architecture, features, and operations of systems built using one particular type of chip or hardware specification. From the Inside Flap The MindShare Architecture SeriesThe MindShare Architecture book series includes: ISA System Architecture, EISA System Architecture, 80486 System Architecture, PCI System Architecture, Pentium System Architecture, PCMCIA System Architecture, PowerPC System Architecture, Plug-and-Play System Architecture, CardBus System Architecture, Protected Mode Software Architecture, USB System Architecture, Pentium Pro and Pentium II System Architecture, and FireWire System Architecture: IEEE 1394. The book series is published by Addison-Wesley.Rather than duplicating common information in each book, the series uses the building-block approach. ISA System Architecture is the core book upon which most of the others build. The figure below illustrates the relationship of the books to each other.Cautionary NoteThe reader should keep in mind that MindShare's book series often deals with rapidly-evolving technologies. This being the case, it should be recognized that each book is a "snapshot" of the state of the targeted technology at the time that the book was completed. We attempt to update each book on a timely basis to reflect changes in the targeted technology, but, due to various factors (waiting for the next version of the spec to be "frozen," the time necessary to make the changes, and the time to produce the books and get them out to the distribution channels), there will always be a delay.What This Book CoversThe purpose of this book is to provide a detailed description of the Pentium Pro and Pentium II processors both from the hardware and the sof
