Functional Description; Hardware Architecture; Component Overview; C.1 Hardware Architecture - Sun Microsystems Blade 1500 Service, Diagnostics, And Troubleshooting Manual

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Functional Description

This appendix describes the inner workings of the Sun Blade 1500 workstation. Topic
include:
"Hardware Architecture" on page C-1
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"Motherboard" on page C-4
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"CPU and Memory" on page C-9
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"Internal Interfaces and ASICs" on page C-15
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"Graphics Accelerators" on page C-21
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"System Clocks and Interrupts" on page C-28
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"External Interfaces" on page C-31
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"System Thermal Management" on page C-36
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"System Power Management" on page C-38
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Hardware Architecture

This section provides an overview of the Sun Blade 1500 workstation.
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Component Overview

The Sun Blade 1500 workstation has four primary motherboard components:
"CPU" on page C-2
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"I/O Bridge Chip" on page C-2
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"I/O Subsystem" on page C-2
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"Gigabit Ethernet" on page C-2
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