Floorplanning

ISSCC 2018: The IBM z14 Microprocessor And System Control Design

David SchorArchitectures, Circuit Design, Floorplanning, ISSCC 2018, Server ProcessorsMay 13, 2018 Tagged 14HP, 14nm, floorplan, IBM, ISSCC, ISSCC 2018, mainframe, z/Architecture, z14

A look at the changes and enhancements that were implemented by IBM in their z14 mainframe microprocessor and system control chips.

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A look at Nvidia’s NVLink interconnect and the NVSwitch

David SchorArchitectures, Circuit Design, Conferences, Floorplanning, Graphics ProcessorsMay 6, 2018 Tagged 12FFN, 12nm, AI, DGX-1, DGX-2, GPU, Interconnect, Nvidia, NVLink, NVSwitch, Pascal, Volta

A look at Nvidia’s NVLink interconnect and the 2-billion transistor NVSwitch that is powering Nvidia’s latest DGX-2 deep learning machine.

ISSCC 2018: AMD’s Zeppelin; Multi-chip routing and packaging

David SchorArchitectures, Circuit Design, Floorplanning, ISSCC 2018March 24, 2018 Tagged 14nm, 2D packaging, AMD, AMD's infinity fabric, EPYC, multi-chip package, Ryzen, x86, Zen

A look at AMD’s Zeppelin SoC and the Infinity Fabric, a multi-chip architecture used by AMD to scale their SoC design from the mainstream PC market all the way to the server market.

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ISSCC 2018: Intel’s Skylake-SP Mesh and Floorplan

David SchorArchitectures, Circuit Design, Floorplanning, ISSCC 2018March 9, 2018 Tagged 14nm, floorplan, Intel, ISSCC, ISSCC 2018, Skylake, Skylake-SP, x86, Xeon Scalable

At ISSCC 2018 Intel gave us some more interesting architectural details of their latest Skylake server microprocessors which brought a new mesh interconnect, a new cache hierarchy, and wider vector operations among a large array of other enhancements.

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