Development of Digital's PCI Chip Sets and Evaluation Kit for the DECchip 21064 Microprocessor
Samyojita A. Nadkarni, Walker Anderson, Lauren M. Carlson, D. Kravitz, Mitchell O. Norcross, Thomas M. Wenners · Digital technical journal · 1994
The DECchip 21071 and the DECchip 21072 chip sets were designed to provide simple, competitive devices for building cost-focused or high-performance PCI-based sys- tems using the DECchip 21064 family of Alpha AXP microprocessors. The chip sets include data slices, a bridge between the DECchip 21064 microprocessor and the PCI local bus, and a secondary cache and memory controller. The EB64+ evaluation kit, a companion product, contains an example PC mother board that was built using the DECchip 21064 microprocessor, the DECchip 21072 chip set, and other off-the-shelf PC components. The EB64+ kit provides hooks for system designers to evaluate cost/performance trade-offs. Either chip set, used with the EB64+ evalu- ation kit, enables system designers to develop Alpha AXP PCs with minimal design and engineering effort.