AppliedMicro Introduces Multi-core System-on-Chip for Next Generation Converged Applications
October 16 2009 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
Applied Micro Circuits Corporation (NASDAQ:AMCC), or
AppliedMicro, a global leader in energy conscious computing and
communications solutions, today announced the first member of its
APM 83K series System on Chip (SoC) family: APM 83290 - the highest
performance Power Architecture® solution available in bulk CMOS
process. Designed from the ground-up to achieve industry leading
speeds comparable to designs manufactured in expensive
Silicon-on-Insulator processes, the APM 83290 SoC provides a level
of price flexibility that makes it attractive to a wider range of
systems. The APM 83290 also features proprietary PacketPro™ and
MultiEase™ technologies developed from AppliedMicro’s extensive
networking and processing experience for a device that delivers the
best performance for wireless infrastructure, enterprise, storage,
entertainment, multifunction printer and communications
applications.
The APM 83290 includes a processor subsystem that integrates two
Titan cores based on Power Architecture technology, delivering
frequencies of 1.5 GHz per core. The Titan core is a superscalar,
dual-issue, out-of-order core designed to achieve industry leading
single thread performance on a per clock basis. Along with high
performance, innovative circuit design techniques enable the APM
83290 to deliver speeds of 1.5 GHz in 90nm bulk CMOS while
comparable designs require 45nm SOI process technology to achieve
similar operating speeds. This combination of performance and price
flexibility makes this solution attractive for many low cost
application areas that traditionally were not serviced by Power
Architecture products.
The APM 83290’s PacketPro consists of a number of acceleration
blocks designed to offload the processor subsystem from commonly
occurring tasks in networking applications. A fundamental component
of PacketPro is a message passing architecture that simplifies data
movement between the various acceleration blocks and provides
Quality of Service guarantees for each flow regardless of the
loading from other flows. This Quality of Service is guaranteed via
a powerful and flexible Queue Manager and Traffic Manager (QMTM)
block. Instead of using isolated operation offloads, the
acceleration blocks are designed to offload entire protocol level
tasks in order to reduce processing overhead and increase
application performance. These blocks are fully software
programmable in order to support proprietary features and provide
upgradability for future protocol enhancements.
“Instead of simply throwing extraneous general purpose CPU cores
into a chip, we’ve developed dedicated silicon blocks to offload
the most challenging system tasks and ensure that the APM 83K
family of SoCs delivers more efficient power/performance ratios for
our customers’ applications,” said Robert Fanfelle, Associate Vice
President of Strategic Marketing for AppliedMicro. “PacketPro
technology enables efficient packet processing and fair sharing of
bandwidth amongst flows allowing our powerful multi-core processor
subsystem to concentrate its resources on executing customer
applications.”
AppliedMicro’s MultiEase™ technology allows customers to reduce
development efforts and accelerate their time to market schedules
by providing virtualization of on-chip resources, fault isolation
debug and error recovery. This allows customers to easily migrate
applications originally developed for single core microprocessor
systems into a multi-core environment. In addition, the APM 83K
series is code compatible with PowerPC™ products, giving developers
the flexibility to leverage their software development efforts and
tool sets into new multi-core applications.
“Our customers have put many years into fine tuning and honing
their software for single-core environments and they want to
preserve their investment yet still take advantage of next
generation multi-core processors,” Fanfelle said. “With MultiEase,
our customers can avoid having to fundamentally redesign their
software simply to work in a multi-core shared-resource
environment. The customer can ease his transition by controlling
the amount of resource sharing and optimization for their
particular mix of applications, in turn improving product
reliability and time-to-market.”
“Converged network applications represent a rapidly growing
portion of today’s $3.3 billion high-speed embedded processor
market,” said Linley Gwennap, principal analyst of The Linley Group
and coauthor of a new report on embedded processors. “AppliedMicro
has extensive experience with packet processing, which is a key
function for processors in these networking applications. The APM
83K series with PacketPro is company’s best effort yet for
combining its embedded processor technology with its networking
experience, giving AppliedMicro an advantage in this large and
growing market.”
The hardware features of the APM 83290 SoC include dual Titan
cores, each with a floating point unit, 512KB of shared L2 Cache
memory with ECC support, full hardware memory and I/O coherency,
64-bit DDR2 SDRAM interface, security acceleration for IPSec, SSL,
Kasumi, SNOW3G and public-key protocols. Other features include a
classification engine, multi-channel DMA engine, and high speed
interfaces for Gigabit Ethernet ports, IEEE1588v2 support, PCI
Express® v2.0, Serial RapidIO®, USB and SATA.
Availability
Applied Micro’s APM 83290 is available now in sample quantities
with production quantities expected in Q1 2010.
AppliedMicro Overview
AppliedMicro is a global leader in energy efficient sustainable
solutions to process, transport, and store information for the next
generation of Internet data center and carrier central office. A
leader in high speed signal processing, IP and Ethernet packet
processing, and embedded processors, AppliedMicro's patented
innovations provide high value solutions in telecom, enterprise and
consumer applications. AppliedMicro's corporate headquarters are
located in Sunnyvale, California. Sales and engineering
offices are located throughout the world. For further information
regarding AppliedMicro, visit the company’s Web site at
http://www.appliedmicro.com.
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