Gregory's Server@kenshirriff The Bus Interface Logic block seems shockingly large, half the area of either cache. What's going on?
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 @kenshirriff The Bus Interface Logic block seems shockingly large, half the area of either cache. What's going on? 1 comment
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@tommythorn In comparison, on the 8086, the Bus Interface Unit is roughly half the chip. The Bus Interface is doing a lot: performing prefetches, handling memory and I/O bus cycles, handling interrupts, bus hold, bus locking, cache operations, and so forth.