About the VMIVME-1101
VMIVME-1101
This unit is a part of the VMIC array of products that were all initially designed and manufactured as a series from General Electric. These products feature a wide degree of functions and configurations, such as analog to digital converter boards, central processing units, and both Input and Output modules.
The VMIVME-1101 is VMEbus Single Board Computer module, outfitted with an Intel Pentium IV M Processor, which operates at standard processor speeds of up to 2.2 gigahertz.
The VMIVME-1101’s Intel Pentium IV M Processor is the first Intel mobile processor with the Intel NetBurst microarchitecture design. It utilizes a 478 pin, Micro Flip-Chip Pin Grid Array (Micro FCPGA) package, and is able to plug into a surface mount, zero insertion force (ZIF) socket. The processor maintains full compatibility with IA32 software. The microarchitecture features hyper-pipelined technology, a rapid execution engine, a 400 megahertz system bus, and an execution trace cache.
The hyper-pipelined technology doubles the pipeline depth in the VMIVME-1101, allowing the processor to reach much higher core frequencies. The rapid execution engine allows the two integer ALUs in the processor to run at twice the core frequency, which allows several integer instructions to execute in at least half a second. The 400 megahertz system bus is a quad pumped bus running off a 100 megahertz system clock, making the data transfer rate of 3.2 gigabytes per second possible. The execution trace cache is a first level cache that stores approximately 12 kilobyte decoded micro-operations, which removes the instruction decoding logic from the main execution path, thereby increasing performance.
