XBOX 360 SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE University （XBOX 360系统架构大学）.pdfVIP

XBOX 360 SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE THIS ARTICLE COVERS THE XBOX 360’S HIGH-LEVEL TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS, A SHORT SYSTEM OVERVIEW, AND DETAILS OF THE CPU AND THE GPU. THE AUTHORS DESCRIBE THEIR ARCHITECTURAL TRADE-OFFS AND SUMMARIZE THE SYSTEM’S SOFTWARE PROGRAMMING SUPPORT. Microsoft’s Xbox 360 game console to translate the next-generation gaming prin- is the first of the latest generation of game con- ciple into useful feature requirements and soles. Historically, game console architecture next-generation game workloads. For the and design implementations have provided game workloads, the designers’ direction came large discrete jumps in system performance, from interaction with game developers, approximately at five-year intervals. Over the including game engine developers, middle- last several generations, game console systems ware developers, tool developers, API and dri- have increasingly become graphics supercom- ver developers, and game performance puters in their own right, particularly at the experts, both inside and outside Microsoft. launch of a given game console generation. One key next-generation game feature The Xbox 360, pictured in Figure 1, contains requirement was that the Xbox 360 system an aggressive hardwa