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发表于 2005-7-22 21:17:44
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一个关于pci的问题
North bridge has two major interface, PCI interface and local bus interface, both of them are equally important. PCI has two modules, one works as master and the other one works as target. Local bus interface has two modules, as well, master and slave.
The tricky part is latency or performance. How many cycles does it take to transfer a cycle from local bus to PCI bus? It takes many tricks to increase the throughput, like posted write, prefetch read, taking advantage of CPU bursting mode (four cycles, eight cycles...) , and insight of the application north bridge is used in.
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