User`s guide

1.1.9 Design Support
The full database, including schematics and source files, is supplied. User
documentation is also included. The database allows designers with no
previous Alpha architecture experience to successfully develop a working Alpha
system with minimal help.
1.2 Evaluation Board Uses
The AlphaPC64 has a remote debug capability and a software debug monitor
for loading code into the system and for performing other software debug
functions such as memory read, memory write, and instruction breakpoint.
When combined with a hardware interface, the debug monitor can be used to
write and debug software (for example, device drivers) for workstation and PC
products. The monitor can also be used for embedded control products such
as laser printers, communications engines (such as bridges and routers), and
video products.
The AlphaPC64 has user-configurable flexibility in L2 cache size and DRAM
access time. Performance benchmarks can be run to determine the effects of
these characteristics on actual programs.
Different coding techniques can be tested and combined with the hardware
trade-offs available to optimize system performance.
The AlphaPC64 provides a basis for a high-performance, low-cost PC or
workstation.
Figure 1–2 shows the AlphaPC64 board component layout and dimensions.
1–6 AlphaPC64 Introduction