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21850J/0-February 2000 Preliminary Information AMD-K6®-2 Processor Data Sheet Contents Revision Historyxix 1 AMD-K6®-2 Processor 1 1.1 Super7™ Platform Initiative 3 Super7™ Platform Enhancements 3 Super7™ Platform Advantages 4 2 Internal Architecture 5 2.1 Introduction 5 2.2 AMD-K6®-2 Processor Microarchitecture Overview 5 Enhanced RISC86® Microarchitecture 6 2.3 Cache, Instruction Prefetch, and Predecode Bits 9 Cache 9 Prefetching...30 EFLAGS Register 31 Control Registers 32 Debug Registers 34 Model-Specific Registers (MSR 37 Contents iii
21850J/0-February 2000 Preliminary Information AMD-K6®-2 Processor Data Sheet Contents Revision Historyxix 1 AMD-K6®-2 Processor 1 1.1 Super7™ Platform Initiative 3 Super7™ Platform Enhancements 3 Super7™ Platform Advantages 4 2 Internal Architecture 5 2.1 Introduction 5 2.2 AMD-K6®-2 Processor Microarchitecture Overview 5 Enhanced RISC86® Microarchitecture 6 2.3 Cache, Instruction Prefetch, and Predecode Bits 9 Cache 9 Prefetching...30 EFLAGS Register 31 Control Registers 32 Debug Registers 34 Model-Specific Registers (MSR 37 Contents iii
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...Platform Enhancements The Super7 platform has the following enhancements: s 100-MHz processor bus-The AMD-K6-2 processor supports a 100-MHz, 800 Mbyte/second frontside bus to provide a high-speed interface to 550 MHz and beyond. The 100-MHz interface to the frontside Level 2 (L2) cache and main system...the graphics card. The Super7 platform also supports the AMD-K6-III processor which features a full-speed, internal backside 256-Kbyte L2 cache designed to leading-edge desktop systems. This processor also supports an optional 100-MHz external L3 cache for backside L2 and frontside L3 ...
...Platform Enhancements The Super7 platform has the following enhancements: s 100-MHz processor bus-The AMD-K6-2 processor supports a 100-MHz, 800 Mbyte/second frontside bus to provide a high-speed interface to 550 MHz and beyond. The 100-MHz interface to the frontside Level 2 (L2) cache and main system...the graphics card. The Super7 platform also supports the AMD-K6-III processor which features a full-speed, internal backside 256-Kbyte L2 cache designed to leading-edge desktop systems. This processor also supports an optional 100-MHz external L3 cache for backside L2 and frontside L3 ...