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Mastering High Performance Multiprocessor Signaling
Mastering High Performance Multiprocessor Signaling Author:D. Coleman, M. Mirmak Mastering High Performance Multiprocessor Signaling — explains the electrical design, board layout, test & measurement, and validation — elements involved in implementing the Intel QuickPath Interconnect, the foundation — of future generations of Intel® microprocessor systems, using a high speed, packetized, — point-to-point system i... more »nterconnect that uses multiple narrow high speed differential
links to stitch together processors into a fabric of a distributed shared memory-style
platform architecture.
Creating circuits for the very high speeds demanded by today's computers require
skill sets that are not commonly provided by conventional electrical engineering
education. Differential signaling is now the fundamental technology enabling high
speed, microwave frequency data rates. Signaling speeds of Intel QuickPath Interconnect
are now so high, transmission channel artifacts such as frequency dependent attenuation,
ringing and crosstalk will have an influence across several bits of transmitted
data.
Customer Comments
"Mastering
High Performance Multiprocessor Signaling
nicely brings together an explanation of the various components of an Intel®
QuickPath Interconnect link: driver, channel, and receiver, and the trade-offs
that need to be made to achieve a successful differential serial communications
link."- Thomas Walley, Project Manager, Avago Technologies
"Mastering
High Performance Multiprocessor Signalingprovides a very good introduction to the principles of high speed differential
serial circuit design. It quickly dives into how those principles specifically
apply to designing with the Intel® QuickPath Interconnect."- Aubrey Sparkman,