Article: AMD's Jaguar Microarchitecture
By: Hugo Décharnes (hdecharn.delete@this.outlook.fr), June 7, 2014 3:08 am
Room: Moderated Discussions
David Kanter (dkanter.delete@this.realworldtech.com) on April 1, 2014 1:19 am wrote:
> Hot off the presses:
>
> Jaguar is AMD’s first 28nm processor, a compact 3.1mm2 design that targets 2-25W devices. It is
> a derivative of the earlier 40nm Bobcat, a fully out-of-order two issue design, with significant
> improvements in instruction set architecture and implementation. Some of the highlights include
> support for AVX, wider 128-bit datapaths, and a higher performance L2 cache. Jaguar is already shipping
> in several AMD SoCs targeted at tablets, notebooks, microservers, and desktops. However, it is far
> more prominent as the CPU powering the Sony Playstation 4 and Microsoft Xbox One.
>
> The full Jaguar article is probably my last 'big' microarchitectural piece for a while.
>
> I want to give a huge thanks to a number of anonymous RWT readers who contributed
> to this article. As always, feedback, comments and questions are welcome.
>
> And if you happen to be in the Austin area next weekend, you can quiz me over BBQ.
>
> David
Do you have detailled informations about Jaguar pipeline's stages, i.e. what are the operations performed at each stage?
Hugo
> Hot off the presses:
>
> Jaguar is AMD’s first 28nm processor, a compact 3.1mm2 design that targets 2-25W devices. It is
> a derivative of the earlier 40nm Bobcat, a fully out-of-order two issue design, with significant
> improvements in instruction set architecture and implementation. Some of the highlights include
> support for AVX, wider 128-bit datapaths, and a higher performance L2 cache. Jaguar is already shipping
> in several AMD SoCs targeted at tablets, notebooks, microservers, and desktops. However, it is far
> more prominent as the CPU powering the Sony Playstation 4 and Microsoft Xbox One.
>
> The full Jaguar article is probably my last 'big' microarchitectural piece for a while.
>
> I want to give a huge thanks to a number of anonymous RWT readers who contributed
> to this article. As always, feedback, comments and questions are welcome.
>
> And if you happen to be in the Austin area next weekend, you can quiz me over BBQ.
>
> David
Do you have detailled informations about Jaguar pipeline's stages, i.e. what are the operations performed at each stage?
Hugo