[Info-vax] Intel previews new Itanium "Poulson" processor

[John Reagan]

"John Wallace" <johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message 
news:2294d28b-7d0e-454c-8771-03f4ae534e52 at o14g2000prb.googlegroups.com...

>Is there even an equivalent of the Alpha Architecture Handbook (the
>freely downloadable one, condensed from the Architecture Reference
>Manual)?

Ian pointed to the downloadable Itanium architecture manuals archive.  They 
have been public since day-1.  They describe the architecture.

The 4 volume architecture is at: 
http://www.intel.com/design/itanium/manuals/iiasdmanual.htm

The manual at: http://www.intel.com/design/itanium2/manuals/251110.htm give 
the chip level timings, etc.  This answers JF's questions as well.

It not be too difficult to imagine an equivalent document being written for 
Poulson which would be released closer to the actual shipment.

The manuals provided by Intel for Itanium are more complete than the Alpha 
manuals if you want my opinion.  Much of the Alpha implementation timings, 
etc. were discussed in emails, meetings, etc., but never formalized for 
customer release.

John