1-2 N64 Control Deck Architecture

The N64 System is composed of the total of four chips, as the core, which are the RCP, CPU and two RDRAM chips. Program execution is provided by the CPU and RCP. Both of these can execute the program at the same time. The processing units executed by them is called a thread and a task in the N64 system.

Figure1-2-1 N64 Control Deck Architecture