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* Paramesh Gopi, Gaurav Singh, Greg Favor. ''"X-Gene: 64-bit ARM CPU and SoC."'' Hot Chips 24 Symposium (HCS), 2012 IEEE. IEEE, 2012. | * Paramesh Gopi, Gaurav Singh, Greg Favor. ''"X-Gene: 64-bit ARM CPU and SoC."'' Hot Chips 24 Symposium (HCS), 2012 IEEE. IEEE, 2012. | ||
Revision as of 20:40, 25 September 2018
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| Storm µarch | |
| General Info | |
| Arch Type | CPU |
| Designer | AppliedMicro |
| Manufacturer | TSMC |
| Introduction | 2011 |
| Process | 40 nm |
| Core Configs | 8 |
| Pipeline | |
| Type | Superscalar |
| OoOE | Yes |
| Speculative | Yes |
| Reg Renaming | Yes |
| Instructions | |
| ISA | ARMv8 |
| Succession | |
Storm is AppliedMicro first custom ARM microarchitecture for servers. Storm-based microprocessors were sold under the X-Gene 1 brand of server microprocessors.
Codenames
| Codename | Description |
|---|---|
| Potenza | codename for the core and memory sub-system |
Technology
Storm is fabricated on TSMC's 40 nm bluk CMOS.
Architecture
Memory Hierarchy
- Cache
- L1I
- 32 KiB, 8-way set associative
- Per core
- ECC and Parity protection
- 32 KiB, 8-way set associative
- L1D
- 32 KiB, 8-way set associative
- Per core
- 64 B/line
- Write-through with write-combining
- ECC and Parity protection
- 32 KiB, 8-way set associative
- L2
- 256 KB
- Per process module (2 cores)
- Inclusive of L1 write-thru data caches
- 64 B/line
- ECC and Parity protection
- 256 KB
- L3
- 8 MiB
- 64 B/line
- Per chip
- L1I
Bibliography
- Paramesh Gopi, Gaurav Singh, Greg Favor. "X-Gene: 64-bit ARM CPU and SoC." Hot Chips 24 Symposium (HCS), 2012 IEEE. IEEE, 2012.
Facts about "Storm - Microarchitectures - AppliedMicro"
| codename | Storm + |
| core count | 8 + |
| designer | AppliedMicro + |
| first launched | 2011 + |
| full page name | apm/microarchitectures/storm + |
| instance of | microarchitecture + |
| instruction set architecture | ARMv8 + |
| manufacturer | TSMC + |
| microarchitecture type | CPU + |
| name | Storm + |
| process | 40 nm (0.04 μm, 4.0e-5 mm) + |