links to other sites
processor vendors
Intel
@
http://www.intel.com/
and
ftp://download.intel.com
NexGen (bought by AMD)
@
http://www.amd.com/products/cpg/nx586/nx586.html
AMD
@
http://www.amd.com/
x86-64.org
@
http://www.x86-64.org/
IBM (abandoned)
@
http://www.chips.ibm.com/products/x86/
Cyrix (bought by VIA)
@
http://www.cyrix.com/ and http://www.xcyrix.com/
National Semiconductor
@
http://www.national.com/
Centaur (bought by VIA)
@
http://www.centtech.com/
IDT (abandoned)
@
http://www.idt.com/
VIA
@
http://www.via.com.tw/
and
http://www.viaarena.com/
Rise (abandoned)
@
http://www.rise.com/
(also
Taiwan
)
SiS (licensed Rise)
@
http://www.sis.com/
SGS Thomson (licensed Rise)
@
http://www.st.com/
DMP (licensed Rise)
@
http://www.dmp.com.tw/
(see
M6117D
,
Vortex86
, and
Vortex86SX
)
Transmeta
@
http://www.transmeta.com/
ZF Linux
@
http://www.zflinux.com/
MemoryLogix
@
http://www.memorylogix.com/
Texas Instruments (abandoned)
@
http://www.ti.com/
UMC (abandoned)
@
http://www.umc.com.tw/
Metaflow (abandoned)
@
http://www.metaflow.com/
International Meta Systems (abandoned)
@
http://www.imes.com/
Rochester Electronics (old CPUs in stock)
@
http://www.rocelec.com/
Intersil (old CPUs in stock)
@
http://www.intersil.com/design/parametric/productendpoint.asp?cn=231
upgrade providers
Kingston
@
http://www.kingston.com/
Evergreen
@
http://www.evertech.com/
Trinity Works
@
http://www.trinityworks.com/
PowerLeap
@
http://www.powerleap.com/
simulators, emulators, and virtualization
Virtutec's Simics
@
http://www.virtutech.com/
and
http://www.simics.com/
Transitive Technologies
@
http://www.transitivetechnologies.com/
DEC/Compaq (FX!32 for Alpha)
@
http://www.support.compaq.com/amt/fx32/
VMware (run multiple OSs)
@
http://www.vmware.com/
Lismore (Blue Label for Mac)
@
http://www.lismoresoft.com/
Connectix (Virtual PC for Mac)
@
http://www.connectix.com/
Freemware (similar to VMware)
@
http://www.freemware.org/
Bochs
@
http://bochs.sourceforge.net/
SSI/SoftProbe
@
http://www.google.com/search?q=softprobe
Visual Probe
@
http://www.rtxc.com/no_flash/prbvsm.htm
80486 simulator
@
http://www.rdos.net/sim/
partial 8086 simulator
@
http://www.softwareforeducation.com/simulator.htm
Stanford's DISCO project
@
http://www-flash.stanford.edu:80/Disco/
instruction-level simulation and tracing
@
http://www.xsim.com/bib/
emulation software R&D WWW page
@
http://www.uruk.org/~erich/emu/
test suites
CPU Technology's BVT586
@
http://www.cputech.com/behavior.htm
IBM's Genesys and Genie
@
http://www.haifa.il.ibm.com/verification.html
WhiteEagle and AMD K6
@
http://www.westinc.com/k6verf.html
Synopsis and Rise mP6
@
http://www.synopsys.com/products/etg/rise_wp.html
John Hauser's SoftFloat and TestFloat
@
http://HTTP.CS.Berkeley.EDU/~jhauser/arithmetic/
William Kahan's SRTEST
@
http://HTTP.CS.Berkeley.EDU/~wkahan/
Netlib's UCBTEST et al
@
http://www.netlib.org/fp/
lcc's paranoia.c
@
http://www.CS.Princeton.EDU/software/lcc/
ICEs, LAs, and debuggers
Microtek International
@
http://www.microtekintl.com/
American Arium
@
http://www.arium.com/
International Test Technologies
@
http://www.intertesttech.com/
Hewlett-Packard
@
http://www.tm.agilent.com/tmo/
Tektronix
@
http://www.tek.com/
Corelis
@
http://www.corelis.com/
Emulation Technology
@
http://www.emulation.com/
SoftAid
@
http://www.softaid.com/
Hitex
@
http://www.hitex.de/
Applied Microsystems
@
http://www.amc.com/
InBus
@
http://www.inbus.com/
Etnus TotalView
@
http://www.etnus.com/
NuMega SoftICE
@
http://www.numega.com/
OllyDbg
@
http://home.t-online.de/home/Ollydbg/
Sudley Place 386SWAT
@
http://www.sudleyplace.com/
P&B's DBG.EXE
@
http://www.probo.com/debugger.htm
P6 ITP secrets
@
http://www.ifrance.com/lerman/itp.html
SEMICAPS
@
http://www.semicaps.com/
Chipworks
@
http://www.chipworks.com/
BIOS vendors
American Megatrends
@
http://www.megatrends.com/
Award
@
http://www.award.com/
Phoenix
@
http://www.phoenix.com/
MR-BIOS
@
http://www.mrbios.com/
Unicore
@
http://www.unicore.com/
Systemsoft
@
http://www.systemsoft.com/
books and libraries
Addison Wesley
@
http://www.aw.com/
O'Reilly
@
http://www.oreilly.com/
IEEE
@
http://www.ieee.org/
Microsoft Press
@
http://mspress.microsoft.com/
Microsoft Support
@
http://support.microsoft.com/support/search/
Ralf Brown's interrupt list
@
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/ralf/pub/WWW/
Aad Offerman's chiplist
@
http://www.chiplist.com/
great microprocessors of the past and present
@
http://www3.sk.sympatico.ca/jbayko/cpu.html
Ray Moon's misc. FAQs
@
http://www2.dgsys.com/~raymoon/moonware.html
Harald Feldmann's 86BUGS list
@
http://www.xs4all.nl/~feldmann/
miscellaneous specs
@
ftp://x2ftp.oulu.fi/pub/msdos/programming/specs/
Programmer's Heaven
@
http://www.programmersheaven.com/
Intel Technology Journal
@
http://developer.intel.com/technology/itj/
(
archive
)
IMPACT Research Group
@
http://www.crhc.uiuc.edu/IMPACT/
ORC for IPF
@
http://ipf-orc.sourceforge.net/
Digital Western Research Lab (now HP)
@
http://www.research.compaq.com/wrl/
Alpha technical documentation library
@
http://www.support.compaq.com/alpha-tools/documentation/
SMT research @ University of Washington
@
http://www.cs.washington.edu/research/smt/
USPTO
@
http://patents.uspto.gov/
EPO
@
http://www.espacenet.com/
WIPO PCT database
@
http://pctgazette.wipo.int/
Delphion patent server
@
http://www.delphion.com/
CiteSeer
@
http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/cs/
technology forums
HyperTransport consortium
@
http://www.hypertransport.org/
PCI forum
@
http://www.pcisig.com/
AGP forum
@
http://www.agpforum.org/
USB forum
@
http://www.usb.org/
1394 forum
@
http://www.1394ta.org/
SATA forum
@
http://www.serialata.org/
SBS forum
@
http://www.sbs-forum.org/
Desktop Form Factors
@
http://www.formfactors.org/
DMTF forum
@
http://www.dmtf.org/
WfM forum
@
http://developer.intel.com/ial/wfm/
IPMI forum
@
http://developer.intel.com/design/servers/ipmi/
DIG64 forum
@
http://dig64.org/
news and magazines
c't magazine
@
http://www.heise.de/ct/
(
news
) (German)
NEWS.COM
@
http://www.news.com/
slashdot.org
@
http://slashdot.org/
EE Times
@
http://www.eetimes.com/
ZD stuff
@
http://www.zd.com/
MDR/MPR stuff
@
http://www.mdronline.com/
The Linley Group
@
http://www.linleygroup.com/
CMP stuff
@
http://www.techweb.com/
The Inquirer
@
http://uk.theinquirer.net/
The Register
@
http://www.theregister.co.uk/
Intel Secrets website (abandoned)
@
http://www.x86.org/
JC's PC news'n'links
@
http://www.jc-news.com/pc/
kagai news (japanese)
@
http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/pc/docs/article/backno/kaigai.htm
generic PC sites
PC Guide
@
http://www.pcguide.com/
PC Technology Guide
@
http://www.pctechguide.com/
Ars Technica
@
http://www.ars-technica.com/
Build Your Own PC
@
http://www.daileyint.com/build/
PC Mechanic
@
http://www.pcmech.com/
PC Hardware Links
@
http://www.erols.com/chare/main.htm
Hardware Central
@
http://www.hardwarecentral.com/
KarbosGuide
@
http://www.karbosguide.com/
PC hardware & performance guide
@
http://www.sysopt.com/
Cybertech Online
@
http://www.cybertech-online.com/
Absolute PC
@
http://www.absolutepc.net/php/
Planet Hardware
@
http://www.planethardware.com/
Hardware-One
@
http://www.hardware-one.com/
CRUS (Computers R Us)
@
http://www.crus.com/
The Tech Report
@
http://www.tech-report.com/
Lost Circuits
@
http://www.lostcircuits.com/
Chip Geek
@
http://www.ugeek.com/procspec/
TweakPC
@
http://www.tweakpc.de/
(German)
hardware-fr.com
@
http://www.hardware-fr.com/
(French)
x86-secret.com
@
http://www.x86-secret.com/
(French)
iXBT
@
http://www.ixbt.com/
(Russian)
Xbit labs
@
http://www.xbitlabs.com/
Trish's escape from hardware hell
@
http://hardwarehell.com/
Tom's hardware page
@
http://www.tomshardware.com/
Sharky Extreme
@
http://www.sharkyextreme.com/
Anand Tech
@
http://www.anandtech.com/
PC Nut
@
http://www.pcnut.com/
Hard OCP
@
http://www.hardocp.com/
Hot Hardware
@
http://www.hothardware.com/
Plasma Online
@
http://www.plasma-online.de/
AMD Zone
@
http://www.amdzone.com/
3DNow net
@
http://www.3dnow.net/
Planet 3DNow!
@
http://www.planet3dnow.de/
(German)
Slot A
@
http://www.slota.com/
Socket 370 to Slot 1 converters
@
http://www.freeyellow.com/members7/socket370/
Motherboard Home World
@
http://www.motherboards.org/
Intel motherboard comparison
@
http://www.magsys.co.uk/mbs/
Transmeta Zone
@
http://www.transmetazone.com/
Wim Bervoet's BIOS page
@
http://www.wimsbios.com/
'Rufus' BIOS Kompendium
@
http://www.bios-info.de/
(German)
Overclockers
@
http://www.overclockers.com/
Overclocking Resources
@
http://www.octools.com/
How the hell... do you overclock the Athlon?
@
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/10664.html
KryoTech
@
http://www.kryotech.com/
BenchTest
@
http://www.benchtest.com/
The water-cool news
@
http://www.agaweb.com/coolcpu/
Kim Noer's heat dissipation page
@
http://home.worldonline.dk/~noer/
cpuburn homepage
@
http://users.ev1.net/~redelm/
CPU Burn-In homepage
@
http://users.bigpond.net.au/cpuburn/
Microsoft's WinXP patch for PowerNow!
@
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/release.asp?ReleaseID=33175
other x86 sites
CPU Info Center (abandoned)
@
http://bwrc.eecs.berkeley.edu/CIC/
microprocessors through the ages
@
http://velox.stanford.edu/group/chips_micropro.html
Chip Directory
@
http://www.xs4all.nl/~ganswijk/chipdir/
CPU Info
@
http://www.cpu-info.com/
(Dutch)
CPU Museum
@
http://www.cpu-museum.net/
CPU Museum (pre-286)
@
http://www.cpu-museum.com/
CPU Museum (German)
@
http://www.cpu-museum.de/
CPU Sammlung (German)
@
http://cpu-sammlung.de/
CPU collection
@
http://www.cpu-collection.de/
Karolo's old micrprocessor zone
@
http://komz.org/
CPU Review
@
http://www.cpureview.com/
VLSI Microprocessors
@
http://www.microprocessor.sscc.ru/
CPU description
@
http://www.allcpu.narod.ru/eng/
Red Hill Guide to Computer Hardware
@
http://www.redhill.net.au/ig.html
Processor Emporium
@
http://www.baznet.freeserve.co.uk/
CPUsite
@
http://cpusite.examedia.nl/
real world technologies
@
http://www.realworldtech.com/
Ace's hardware
@
http://www.aceshardware.com/
Click On CPU
@
http://www.clickon-cpu.com/
DataDepot's WhatCPU
@
http://www.datadepo.com/whatcpu.htm
Martin Malik's HWINFO
@
http://www.hwinfo.com/
Micheal Holin's PC-CONFIG
@
http://www.holin.com/
SysId
@
http://www.sysid.subnet.dk/
Tamas Miklos' AIDA32
@
http://www.aida32.hu/
cache memory and TLB calibration tool
@
http://www.cwi.nl/~manegold/Calibrator/
H. Oda!'s page
@
http://www.h-oda.com/
2CPU.com
@
http://www.2cpu.com/
The Dual Celeron Project
@
http://kikumaru.w-w.ne.jp/pc/celeron/index_e.html
NexGen Nx586 Hypercode information
@
http://home.bip.net/wbinvd/Nx586.zip
AMD K6 branch prediction tool
@
ftp://ftp.the-oasis.net/patch/amdbpoff.zip
AMD K7 branch prediction information
@
http://www.s.netic.de/ak/
K7L2DOS utility
@
http://www.multimania.com/realathlon/k7core_k7l2.html
Athlon 4 SSE utility
@
http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA002374/etc/a4sse.zip
interactive cacti
@
http://www.ee.ubc.ca/~stevew/cacti/run_frame.html
embedded x86 pages
@
http://www.eg3.com/embe/gatoxx86.htm
processor die pictures
@
http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/chipshot.html
Pentium jokes
@
http://www.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/~cmc/mirror/chngai/p5/
Pentium FDIV bug
@
ftp://ftp.mathworks.com/pub/pentium/
AMD K6 bug
@
http://membres.lycos.fr/poulot/k6bug_faq.html
AMD JPEG bug
@
http://www.gordonfamily.com/AMD/
Cyrix 6x86 family and Linux
@
http://gwyn.tux.org/~balsa/linux/cyrix/
Agner Fog's Pentium optimizations
@
http://www.agner.org/assem/
Mike Schmit's tools
@
http://www.quantasm.com/
Clive Turvey's stuff
@
http://www.tbcnet.com/~clive/vcomwinp.html
Geoff Chappell's stuff
@
http://www.ozemail.com.au/~geoffch/samples/cpu/undoc/
TMi0SDGL x86 detection
@
http://come.to/b-coolware/
CPUID.com
@
http://www.cpuid.com/
Grzegorz Mazur's x86 files
@
http://grafi.ii.pw.edu.pl/gbm/x86/
Tommesani's MMX/SSE/SSE2 stuff
@
http://www.tommesani.com/Docs.html
Paul Hsieh's assembly stuff
@
http://www.azillionmonkeys.com/qed/
PC processor microarchitecture
@
http://www.extremetech.com/print_article/0,2332,a%253D1621,00.asp
Hans de Vries' Mustang-vs-Willamette paper
@
http://www.chip-architect.com/
Emulators Inc.'s Pentium 4 article
@
http://www.emulators.com/pentium4.htm
Mike's hardware
@
http://freespace.virgin.net/m.warner/
KIP's assembly language sources
@
http://www.nuvisionmiami.com/asmsources/
Randall Hyde's art of assembly
@
http://webster.cs.ucr.edu/
Chris' OS resource center
@
http://magic.hurrah.com/~sabre/os/
The common man's guide to OS design
@
http://cdsmith.twu.net/professional/osdesign.html
Jim Webster's page
@
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Sector/7256/
Chris Dragan's corner
@
http://chris.dragan.name/
hutch's home page (MASM32)
@
http://www.movsd.com/
Ed Beroset's assembly page
@
http://www.beroset.com/
x86 assembly language webring
@
http://X.webring.com/hub?ring=x86asm
Assembly Programming Journal
@
http://asmjournal.freeservers.com/
Linux Assembly
@
http://linuxassembly.org/
Tom Halfhill's BYTE stuff
@
http://www.halfhill.com/
MASM 4.00...7.00 history
@
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/r_harvey/doc_book.htm
good software
Microsoft MASM reference
@
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/
...
Microsoft MASM 6.1x
@
ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/Softlib/MSLFILES/ml6*.exe
Microsoft MASM 6.15
@
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/downloads/ppack/download.asp
The NASM project
@
http://sourceforge.net/projects/nasm
and
http://www.cryogen.com/nasm/
old nasm-devel mailing list at Yahoo
@
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nasm-devel
ALINK
@
http://alink.home.dhs.org/
CodePlay development tools
@
http://www.codeplay.com/
O'love & Tels' ASM edit
@
http://www.o-love.net/asmedit/
Adobe Acrobat (PDF)
@
http://www.adobe.com/
xpdf
@
http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/
Perforce (SCM)
@
http://www.perforce.com/
TextPad (editor for Windows)
@
http://www.textpad.com/
File Commander (long live NC :-)
@
http://silk.apana.org.au/fc.html
VNC (cross-platform remote control)
@
http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/
MSFT rdesktop client for Win32
@
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/downloads/rdclientdl.asp
