Recent and Contemporary Hardware

• Generic and Multiple Architectures
  • CPU Info Center at Berkeley EECS
  • A Set of Standard Microprocessor Programming Cards from Oxford
• Intel x86 and compatible Microprocessors
  • www.x86.org (formerly Intel Secrets, now part of Dr Dobb's Journal) Includes PDF files of Intel's manuals for 386, 486, Pentium (and -Pro), P-II and bus-controller chipsets.
  • www.sandpile.org - Very detailed technical specifications of the Pentium architecture and instruction set.
  • Paul Hsieh's Technical Pages (by Paul Hsieh). Includes A comparison of Pentium-II and its competitors.
  • An Overview of x86 Processors by Mark Brehob, Michigan (3/99)
• IA-64 (Merced): The New 64-bit Machines from Intel
  • Index of IA-64 documents from H-P
  • IA-64 Application ISA Guide (from H-P)
• Alpha (formerly Digital Equipment Corp, now Compaq / Intel together)
  • Alpha Hardware Reference Library and Assembly Coding Information
• Power PC from Motorola and IBM
  • MPC7400 PowerPC G4
  • G4 is first PowerPC with AltiVec, Microprocessor Report, November 1998.
  • PowerPC Manuals from IBM
  • PowerQUICC MPC860 is an embedded version of the PowerPC which is used in many datacomm products. Here is a bibliography of MPC860 documentation
  • MPC855T is the version I use ... here is the errata list ...
• UltraSparc (from Sun Microsystems)

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