David Kanter on CSI

Tuesday 28th August 2007, 02:02:00 PM, written by Rys

Not Crime Scene Investigation, as much as I'd like it to be, but Common System Interface, Intel's next generation system interconnect technology.

Ahead of the next Intel Developer Forum, where the smart money would have been on Intel releasing technical details on CSI, Real World Technologies' David Kanter has written a comprehensive article talking about CSI and what it means for future computing systems.

Given that it's a certainty that various graphics processors will connect via CSI in the future, if you've got time to kill and your technical hat is well and truly on, you could do a lot worse than give David's article a read.

He covers the layered design (outwardly it's not too dissimilar to existing network topologies, and for good reason), updates to cache coherency, link setup and teardown, how it enables many-component systems, CSI node/compartmentalisation and more.

GTL, The Little Bus That Could, is set for a replacement, and CSI is it.

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