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The Pentium Chronicles The People, Passion, and Politics Behind Intel's Landmark Chips

by: Colwell, Robert P.

The Pentium Chronicles The People, Passion, and Politics Behind Intel's Landmark Chips

by: Colwell, Robert P.

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9780471736172
ISBN 10:
0471736171
Edition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 12/23/2005
Publisher: Wiley-IEEE Computer Society Pr

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Summary

The Pentium Chronicles describes the architecture and key decisions that shaped the P6, Intel's most successful chip to date. As author Robert Colwell recognizes, success is about learning from others, and Chronicles is filled with stories of ordinary, exceptional people as well as frank assessments of "oops" moments, leaving you with a better understanding of what it takes to create and grow a winning product.

Foreword

Preface

Introduction

(10)

P6 Project Context

(3)

Betting on CISC

(1)

Proliferation Thinking

(2)

The Gauntlet

(1)

Developing Big Ideas

(2)

Defining Success and Failure

(1)

Senior Wisdom

(1)

Four Project Phases

(2)

The Business of Excellence

(2)

The Concept Phase

(32)

Of Immediate Concern

(1)

Success Factors

(8)

Clear Goals

(2)

The Right People

(1)

P6 Senior Leadership

(1)

Setting the Leadership Tone

(1)

Managing Mechanics

(1)

Physical Context Matters

(1)

The Storage Room Solution

(1)

Beyond the Whiteboard

(1)

``Kooshing'' the Talkers

(1)

A Data-Driven Culture

(4)

The Right Tool

(1)

The ``What Would Happen If'' Game

(1)

DFA Frontiers

(1)

Performance

(6)

Benchmark Selection

(1)

Avoiding Myopic Do-Loops

(1)

Floating-Point Chickens and Eggs

(1)

Legacy Code Performance

(1)

Intelligent Projections

(1)

All Design Teams Are Not Equal

(1)

Overpromise or Overdeliver?

(2)

Customer Visits

(4)

Loose Lips

(1)

Memorable Moments

(1)

Microsoft

(1)

Novell

(1)

Compaq

(1)

Insights from Input

(1)

Not-So-Secret Instructions

(1)

Help from the Software World

(1)

The Truth about Hardware and Software

(1)

Establishing the Design Team

(9)

Roles and Responsibilities

(1)

Presilicon Validation

(1)

Wizard Problem Solving

(1)

Making Microcode a Special Case

(1)

Cubicle Floorplanning

(1)

Architects, Engineers, and Schedules

(1)

Coding, Egos, Subterfuge

(2)

The Refinement Phase

(36)

Of Immediate Concern

(1)

Success Factors

(6)

Handling the Nonquantifiable

(1)

Managing New Perspectives

(1)

Planning for Complexity

(1)

Behavioral Models

(3)

Managing a Changing POR

(8)

The Wrong Way to Plan

(2)

Engineering Change Orders

(1)

The Origin of Change

(1)

When, Where, Who

(1)

Communicating Change

(1)

Timely Resolution, No Pocket Vetoes

(1)

The ECO Czar

(1)

ECO Control and the Project POR

(2)

The Bridge from Architecture to Design

(2)

Focus Groups

(1)

Product Quality

(14)

Mismanaging Design Errors

(1)

Make an Example of the Offender

(1)

Hire Only Geniuses

(1)

Flog Validation

(1)

Avoid/Find/Survive

(1)

Design to Avoid Bugs

(2)

When Bugs Get In Anyway, Find Them Before Production

(1)

Identifying Bugs

(1)

Tracking Bugs

(2)

Managing Validation

(2)

Plan to Survive Bugs that Make It to Production

(1)

A Six-Step Plan for High Product Quality

(1)

The Design Review

(1)

How Not to Do a Review

(1)

When to Do a Review

(1)

Another One Rides the Bus

(4)

The Realization Phase

(36)

Of Immediate Concern

(1)

Success Factors

(3)

Balanced Decision Making

(1)

Documentation and Communication

(1)

Capturing Unit Decisions

(1)

Integrating Architects and Design Engineers

(1)

Performance and Feature Trade-offs

(5)

(Over-) Optimizing Performance

(1)

Perfect A; Mediocre B, C, and D

(1)

The Technical Purity Trap

(1)

The Unbreakable Computer

(2)

Performance-Monitoring Facilities

(1)

Counters and Triggers

(1)

Protecting the Family Jewels

(1)

Testability Hooks

(1)

Gratuitous Innovation Considered Harmful

(1)

Validation and Model Health

(3)

A Thankless Job

(1)

Choosing a Metric

(1)

Health and the Tapeout Target

(1)

Metric Doldrums

(1)

Coordinating with Other Projects

(5)

Performance Estimation

(1)

The Overshooting Scheme

(2)

Psychological Stuff

(1)

Simulator Wars

(2)

Project Management

(17)

Awards, Rewards, and Recognition

(2)

The Dark Side of Awards

100

(3)

Project Management by Grass Cutting

103

(2)

Marginal Return from Incremental Heads

105

(1)

Project Tracking

106

(3)

The Experiment

109

(1)

The Mystery of the Unchanging Curve

109

(1)

Flexibility Is Required of All

110

(2)

The Simplification Effort

112

(3)

The Production Phase

115

(22)

Of Immediate Concern

117

(2)

Functional Correctness

117

(1)

Speed Paths

118

(1)

Chip Sets and Platforms

118

(1)

Success Factors

119

(2)

Prioritizing War Room Issues

119

(1)

Managing the Microcode Patch Space

120

(1)

Product Care and Feeding

121

(8)

Test Vectors

121

(1)

Performance Surprises

122

(2)

Feature Surprises

124

(3)

Executive Pedagogy and Shopping Carts

127

(2)

Managing to the Next Processor

129

(1)

The Windows NT Saga

130

(2)

Product Rollout

132

(5)

On Stage with Andy Grove

133

(1)

How Not to Give Magazine Interviews

133

(1)

Speech Training

134

(3)

The People Factor

137

(18)

Hiring and Firing

138

(4)

Rational Recruitment

138

(1)

Hiring and the Promotion List

139

(2)

Firing

141

(1)

Policy Wars

142

(8)

Corporate Disincentives

143

(2)

The Led Zeppelin Incident

145

(1)

Exiting the Exit Bag Check

146

(2)

Sailboats and Ditches

148

(1)

Orbiting the Bathrooms

149

(1)

Management by Objective

150

(2)

We Are So Rich, We Must Be Good

152

(1)

Burnout

153

(2)

Inquiring Minds Like Yours

155

(16)

What was Intel thinking with that chip ID tag, which caused such a public uproar?

155

(1)

Was the P6 project affected by the Pentium's floating point divider bug?

156

(3)

Why did Pentium have a flawed floating point divider, when its predecessor, the i486, did not?

159

(1)

How would you respond to the claim that the P6 is built on ideas stolen from Digital Equipment Corp.?

160

(1)

What did the P6 team think about Intel's Itanium Processor Family?

161

(3)

Is Intel the sweatshop some people say it is?

164

(2)

How can I become the chief architect of a company such as Intel?

166

(1)

Why did you leave Intel?

167

(1)

And In Closing I'd Just Like To Say . . .

168

(3)

Bibliography

171

(2)

Appendix

173

(6)

Out-of-Order, Superscalar Microarchitecture: A Primer

173

(2)

Plausibility Checking

175

(4)

Glossary

179

(6)

Index

185

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The Pentium Chronicles The People, Passion, and Politics Behind Intel's Landmark Chips

The Pentium Chronicles The People, Passion, and Politics Behind Intel's Landmark Chips

9780471736172

0471736171

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