Chapter 3. Signal Groups

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The previous chapter provided an overview of the HT architecture that defines the primary elements of HT technology and the relationship between these elements. The chapter summarized the features, capabilities, and limitation of HT and provided the background information necessary for in-depth discussions of the various HT topics in later chapters.

This Chapter

This chapter describes the function of each signal in the high and low speed HyperTransport signal groups. The CAD, CTL, and CLK high speed signals are routed point-to-point as low-voltage differential pairs between two devices (or between a device and a connector in some cases). The RESET#, PWROK, LDTREQ#, and LDTSTOP# low speed signals are ...

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