Preliminary Information
AMD Athlon
Processor
Data Sheet
TM
Publication #
21016
Rev:
G
Issue Date:
December 1999
Preliminary Information
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AMD Athlon™ Processor Data Sheet
Contents
Revision History. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi
About This Data Sheet. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Part One
AMD Athlon™ Processor Family
1
2
1.1
2.1
2.2
2.3
3
Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
AMD Athlon™ Processor Microarchitecture Summary . . . . . 2
Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Signaling Technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
AMD Athlon™ System Bus Signals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Interface Signals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
3
4
Logic Symbol Diagram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Power Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
4.1
Power Management States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Full-On . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Halt State . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Stop Grant and Sleep States. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Probe State. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Connection and Disconnection Protocol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Connection Protocol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Connection State Machines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
4.2
5
6
Thermal Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Electrical Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
6.1
6.2
6.3
6.4
6.5
6.6
The AMD Athlon™ System Bus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Signal Groupings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Clock Forwarding. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Voltage Identification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Frequency Identification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Decoupling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Termination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
OD Termination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
CLKFWD Signal Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
SYSCLK, SYSCLK# . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Operating Ranges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Absolute Ratings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Power Dissipation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
DC Characteristics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
AC Characteristics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
6.7
6.8
6.9
6.10
6.11
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Mechanical Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
7.1
7.2
7.3
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Module Dimensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
AMD Athlon™ Processor Card-Edge Signal Listing . . . . . . . 41
8
Ordering Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Standard AMD Athlon™ Processor Products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Part Two
AMD Athlon Processor Model 2
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10
9.1
10.1
10.2
10.3
51
Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
AMD Athlon™ Processor Microarchitecture Summary . . . . 54
Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Signaling Technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
AMD Athlon™ System Bus Signals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Interface Signals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
11
12
13
14
Logic Symbol Diagram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Power Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Thermal Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Electrical Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
14.1
14.2
The AMD Athlon™ System Bus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Signal Groupings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Clock Forwarding. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
14.3 Voltage Identification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
14.4 Frequency Identification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
14.5 Decoupling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
14.6 Termination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
14.7 Operating Ranges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
14.8 Absolute Ratings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
14.9 Power Dissipation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
14.10 DC Characteristics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
14.11 AC Characteristics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
AMD Athlon™ Processor Card-Edge Signal Listing . . . . . . . 76
15
Mechanical Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
15.1
15.2
16
Ordering Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Standard AMD Athlon™ Processor Products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Appendix A Conventions, Abbreviations, and References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
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List of Figures
Part One
Figure 1.
Figure 2.
Figure 3.
Figure 4.
Figure 5.
Figure 6.
Figure 7.
Figure 8.
Figure 9.
Typical AMD Athlon™ Processor System Block Diagram . . . . . 3
Logic Symbol Diagram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
AMD Athlon Processor Power Management States . . . . . . . . . 11
Example System Bus Disconnection Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Exiting Stop Grant State/Bus Reconnection Sequence . . . . . . 16
System Connection States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Processor Connection States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Test Circuit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
AMD Athlon Processor Module Dimensions—Front View . . . 36
Figure 10. AMD Athlon Processor Module Dimensions—Plate Side
View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Figure 11. AMD Athlon Processor Module Dimensions—Side View . . . . 38
Figure 12. AMD Athlon Processor Module Dimensions—Edge View. . . . 38
Figure 13. Card Edge Dimensions—Thermal Plate Side View . . . . . . . . . 39
Figure 14. Card Edge Dimensions (Detail) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Part Two
Figure 15. Typical AMD Athlon Processor System Block Diagram . . . . . . 55
Figure 16. Logic Symbol Diagram for AMD Athlon Processor Model 2 . . 61
List of Figures
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