Intel® Server Board S2600CO Family TPS Functional Architecture Overview
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The Intel
®
QuickPath Interconnect includes a cache coherency protocol to keep the distributed
memory and caching structures coherent during system operation. It supports both low-latency
source snooping and a scalable home snoop behavior. The coherency protocol provides for
direct cache-to-cache transfers for optimal latency.
3.2.2 Integrated Memory Controller (IMC) and Memory Subsystem
Intel® Xeon®
E5-2600
CPU 1
DDR3 MEMORY
2 DIMMs/channel
CHANNEL 0
Intel® Xeon®
E5-2600
CPU2
CHANNEL 1
CHANNEL 2
CHANNEL 3
CHANNEL 0
CHANNEL 1
CHANNEL 2
CHANNEL 3
DDR3 MEMORY
2 DIMMs/channel
QPI
QPI
P2 P1P3P0
IOU0 IOU2IOU1
P1
P3
P2P0
IOU2
IOU1
IOU0
Figure 12. Integrated Memory Controller Functional Block Diagram
Integrated into the processor is a memory controller. Each processor provides four DDR3
channels that support the following:
Unbuffered DDR3 and registered DDR3 DIMMs
LR DIMM (Load Reduced DIMM) for buffered memory solutions demanding higher
capacity memory subsystems
Independent channel mode or lockstep mode
Data burst length of eight cycles for all memory organization modes
Memory DDR3 data transfer rates of 800, 1066, 1333, and 1600 MT/s
64-bit wide channels plus 8-bits of ECC support for each channel
DDR3 standard I/O Voltage of 1.5 V and DDR3 Low Voltage of 1.35 V
1-Gb, 2-Gb, and 4-Gb DDR3 DRAM technologies supported for these devices:
o UDIMM DDR3 – SR x8 and x16 data widths, DR – x8 data width
o RDIMM DDR3 – SR,DR, and QR – x4 and x8 data widths
o LRDIMM DDR3 – QR – x4 and x8 data widths with direct map or with rank
multiplication
Up to 8 ranks supported per memory channel, 1, 2 or 4 ranks per DIMM
Open with adaptive idle page close timer or closed page policy
Per channel memory test and initialization engine can initialize DRAM to all logical zeros
with valid ECC (with or without data scrambler) or a predefined test pattern
Isochronous access support for Quality of Service (QoS)
Minimum memory configuration: independent channel support with 1 DIMM populated
Integrated dual SMBus master controllers
Command launch modes of 1n/2n
RAS Support:
o Rank Level Sparing and Device Tagging