Chapter 43. Pentium® 4 FSB Electrical Characteristics

The Previous Chapter

This chapter provides a complete description of the 90nm Prescott Pentium® 4 processor. This included:

  • Increased Pipeline Depth.

  • Trace Cache Improvements.

  • Increased Number of WCBs.

  • L1 Data Cache Changes.

  • Increased L2 Cache Size.

  • Enhanced Branch Prediction.

  • Store Forwarding Improved.

  • SSE3 Instruction Set.

  • Increased Elimination of Dependencies.

  • Enhanced Shifter/Rotator.

  • Integer Multiply Enhanced.

  • Scheduler Enhancements.

  • Fixed the MXCSR Serialization Problem.

  • Data Prefetch Instruction Execution Enhanced.

  • Improved the Hardware Data Prefetcher.

  • Hyper-Threading Improved.

This Chapter

This chapter provides a detailed description of the FSB's electrical characteristics. This includes.

  • The BSEL ...

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