HyperTransport™ Technology: Simplifying System Design
Designing an I/O bus requires more than a protocol definition and electrical interface specification. While these are two very important aspects of any bus architecture, other issues must also be addressed, such as system design considerations. In the past, a bus had to be made wider for higher performance through higher bandwidth. But the ever-shrinking desktop and server form factors required by IT and consumer markets has made this design methodology both unrealistic and expensive, both in terms of actual costs and power consumption.
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