In IDF 2009 Intel company presented the mobile platform moorestown.
It's based on the single-crystal system lincroft, in which was integrated the 45-nm processor Intel atom, memory controller , graphic adapter and block input/output I/O -PCh. Furthermore, in Moorestown enter microcircuit for the mixed signals processing (MSIC)
Let us recall that the application field of this platform is the mobile devices with Internet- connection (MID) and smart phone : it 's future are the high productivity, small energy consumption and compactness.
Concerning the latter special future, developers optimized the layout Of moorestown for the application in compact devices, especially in those, where the thickness is the determining factor. For example, in traditional PC the majority of controllers are located on the motherboard . In Moorestown on the contrary, the majority is integrated in the chip MSIC briertown . The improvements of moorestown platform allowed to decrease its physical sizes two times in comparison with the previous platform menlow. This tendency must be preserved, also, after transfer to the 32-nm platform medfield.
The energy consumption of the platform was also reduced , acting in several directions. The application of 45-nm technology, and the architectural solutions, ensure the possibility of work at different clock frequencies and adaptations under the current task.
Control power algorithm of the new generation OS power management (OSPM) regulates the computer energy needs for operating conditions .
Single-crystal system, block input/output, microcircuit MSIC and algorithm OSPM work in concord, which substantially decreases the energy consumption in the idle time regime (by 50 times).
The key of energy consumption reduction became the use of technology distributed power gating in different components.
The technology distributed power gating will begin to operate the function of input/output langwell controller and MSIC block (Mixed signal IC) briertown.
Intel specialists accomplished a great work, creating a productive, energetically effective and compact platform. Related Products :
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