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PENTIUM® PROCESSO R 75/ 90/100/120/133/150/ 166/ 200
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1.0. MICROPROCESSOR
ARCHITECTURE OVERVIEW
The Pentium® processor 75/90/100/120/133/
150/166/200 extends the Intel Pentium family of
microprocessors. It is binary compatible with the
8086/88, 80286, Intel386™ DX CPU, Intel386 SX
CPU, Intel486™ DX CPU, Intel486 SX CPU,
Intel486 DX2 CPU, and Pentium processor 60/66.
The Pentium processor family consists of the
following products.
• Described in this document (product code
80502). The name “Pentium processor
75/90/100/120/133/150/166/200” will be us ed to
refer to these products:
– Pentium processor at 200 MHz, iCOMP
®
Index 2.0 rating = 142
– Pentium processor at 166 MHz, iCOMP
Index 2.0 rating = 127
– Pentium processor at 150 MHz, iCOMP
Index 2.0 rating = 114
– Pentium processor at 133 MHz, iCOMP
Index 2.0 rating = 111
– Pentium processor at 120 MHz, iCOMP
Index 2.0 rating = 100
– Pentium processor at 100 MHz, iCOMP
Index 2.0 rating = 90
– Pentium processor at 90 MHz, iCOMP
Index 2.0 rating = 81
– Pentium processor at 75 MHz, iCOMP
Index 2.0 rating = 67
• Original Pentium processor. The name
“Pentium process or 60/66” will be used to refer
to the original 60 and 66 MHz version products:
– Pentium processor at 66 MHz, iCOMP
Index 2.0 rating = 57
– Pentium processor at 60 MHz, iCOMP
Index 2.0 rating = 51
The Pentium proces sor f amily arc hitectur e c ontains
all of the features of the Intel486 CPU family, and
provides significant enhancements and additions
including the following:
• Superscalar Architecture
• Dynamic Branch Prediction
• Pipelined Floating-Point Unit
• Improved Instruction Execution Time
• Separate 8K Code and 8K Data Caches
• Writeback MESI Protocol in the Data Cache
• 64-Bit Data Bus
• Bus Cycle Pipelining
• Address Parity
• Internal Parity Checking
• Functional Redundancy Checking
• Execution Tracing
• Performance Monitoring
• IEEE 1149.1 Boundary Scan
• System Management Mode
• Virtual Mode Extensions
In addition to the features listed abov e, the Pentium
processor 75/90/100/120/133/150/166/200 offers
the following enhancements over Pentium
processor 60/66:
• Fractional bus operation allowing higher core
frequency operation
• Dual processing support
• SL power management features
• On-chip local APIC device
1.1. Pentium® Processor Family
Architecture
The application instruction set of the Pentium
processor family includes the complete Intel486
CPU family instruction set with extensions to
accommodate s ome of t he additional func tionalit y of
the Pentium processors. All application software
written for the Intel386 and Intel486 family
microproc es s ors will run on the Pentium proc es s ors
without modification. The on-chip memory
management unit (MMU) is completely compatible
with the Intel386 family and Intel486 family of CPUs.
The Pentium processors implement several
enhancements to increase performance. The two
instruction pipelines and floating-point unit on
Pentium processors are capable of independent
operation. Each pipeline issues frequently used