Preliminary Information

AMD Athlon™ XP Processor Model 8 Data Sheet

25175H— March 2003

Table 8.

Interface Signal Groupings (continued)

 

 

 

 

Signal Group

Signals

Notes

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

See “Voltage Identification

 

 

 

(VID[4:0])” on page 33, “VID[4:0]

 

 

 

Pins” on page 78,“VCCA AC and DC

Power

 

VID[4:0], VCCA, VCC_CORE, COREFB, COREFB#

Characteristics” on page 33,

 

“VCC_CORE Characteristics” on page

 

 

 

 

 

 

34,“VCCA Pin” on page 78, and

 

 

 

“COREFB and COREFB# Pins” on

 

 

 

page 74.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

See “General AC and DC

 

 

 

Characteristics” on page 39, “INTR

 

 

 

Pin” on page 76, “NMI Pin” on page

 

 

RESET#, INTR, NMI, SMI#, INIT#, A20M#, FERR, IGNNE#,

77, “SMI# Pin” on page 78, “INIT#

Southbridge

 

Pin” on page 76, “A20M# Pin” on

 

STPCLK#, FLUSH#

 

 

page 73, “FERR Pin” on page

 

 

 

 

 

 

74,“IGNNE# Pin” on page 76,

 

 

 

“STPCLK# Pin” on page 79, and

 

 

 

“FLUSH# Pin” on page 77.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

See “Advanced 266 FSB

 

 

 

AMD Athlon™ XP Processor Model

 

 

 

8 SYSCLK and SYSCLK# AC

 

 

 

Characteristics” on page 24,

 

 

 

“Advanced 333 FSB AMD Athlon™

System Clocks

SYSCLK, SYSCLK# (Tied to CLKIN/CLKIN# and RSTCLK/RSTCLK#),

XP Processor Model 8 SYSCLK and

PLLBYPASSCLK#, PLLBYPASSCLK

SYSCLK# AC Characteristics” on

 

 

 

page 28, Table 14, “SYSCLK and

 

 

 

SYSCLK# DC Characteristics,” on

 

 

 

page 37, “SYSCLK and SYSCLK#”

 

 

 

on page 78, and “PLL Bypass and

 

 

 

Test Pins” on page 77.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

See “General AC and DC

 

 

PLLBYPASS#, PLLTEST#, PLLMON1, PLLMON2, SCANCLK1,

Characteristics” on page 39, “PLL

Test

 

Bypass and Test Pins” on page 77,

 

SCANCLK2, SCANSHIFTEN, SCANINTEVAL, ANALOG

 

 

“Scan Pins” on page 78, “Analog

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pin” on page 73.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Table 17, “Thermal Diode Electrical

Thermal

 

THERMDA, THERMDC

Characteristics,” on page 42, and

 

“THERMDA and THERMDC Pins”

 

 

 

 

 

 

on page 78.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

See “General AC and DC

Miscellaneous

DBREQ#, DBRDY, PWROK

Characteristics” on page 39,

“DBRDY and DBREQ# Pins” on

 

 

 

 

 

 

page 74, “PWROK Pin” on page 77.

 

 

 

 

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AMD 8 Signals See Voltage Identification, Power, 73, Ferr Pin on, 74,IGNNE# Pin on, FLUSH# Pin on, Sysclk and SYSCLK# AC

8 specifications

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