Table of contents

Just some random unsorted papers

Intel patents

US6045385 Microcode sequencer design
US5542460 Branch prediction
US5588162 Internal instruction scheduling
US5699085 Reorder buffer and rename
US6510276 Execution pipeline

Hennessy & Patterson — Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach ( Defines MAR, MDR, RAT, ROB, scoreboard, issue queues)
Robert P. Colwell, The Pentium Chronicles: The People, Passion, and Politics Behind Intel's Landmark Chips (Practitioners)

“Modern Processor Design” — For detailed pipeline diagrams
“Inside the Machine” by Jon Stokes — Practical, readable

Misc hardware

www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?p=1307671#p1307671↗ (Pentium Pro to Slot 1)
github.com/x86-JTAG-Open-Research/x86-JTAG-Information↗ x86 JTAG
rayer.g6.cz/hardware/lpc2isa.htm↗ LPC to ISA

Microinstructions

github.com/sladen/intel-microcode/blob/master/micro-instructions.txt↗
phg.chat.ru/opcode.txt↗
www.fermimn.edu.it/inform/materiali/evarchi/intel/p6/optimgd.pdf↗ (v2.2 1995-04)
datasheets.chipdb.org/Intel/x86/P6/optimgd.pdf↗
wasm.in/threads/kolichestvo-taktov-na-komandu.1410/page-2↗
kib.kiev.ua/x86docs/Intel/Intel-OptimGuide/242816-001.pdf↗ (AP-526, 1995-10)
patents.google.com/patent/US6934828↗ fp_store_address fp_store_data
blog.can.ac/2021/03/22/speculating-x86-64-isa-with-one-weird-trick/↗
intel.com/.../documents/research/1999-vol03-iss-2-intel-technology-journal.pdf↗
bebop.cs.berkeley.edu/.../arch-manuals/pentium-iii/keshava99-impltradeoffs.pdf↗

General books

Hennessy, John L.; Patterson, David A. (2017). ''Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach'' (6th ed.). Morgan Kaufmann. ISBN 978-0128119051.
Shen, John P.; Lipasti, Mikko H. (2013). ''Modern Processor Design: Fundamentals of Superscalar Processors'' (2nd ed.). Waveland Press. ISBN 978-1478601043.
Johnson, Mike (1991). ''Superscalar Microprocessor Design''. Prentice Hall. ISBN 978-0138756349.
Baer, Jean-Loup (2010). ''Microprocessor Architecture: From Simple Pipelines to Chip Multiprocessors''. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0521769921.
Sima, Dezső; Fountain, Terence; Kacsuk, Péter (1997). ''Advanced Computer Architectures: A Design Space Approach''. Addison-Wesley. ISBN 978-0201422917.

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