The Road to Production—Debugging and Testing the Nehalem Family of Processors

This article describes innovations in the Design for Validation (DFV), Design for Test (DFT), and High Volume Manufacturing (HVM) features of the Intel® microarchitecture code name Nehalem family of products. These features are critical to debugging the complex architecture of this product family, and they are key to bringing the product family to market on schedule. The challenges we faced...