AppliedMicro Showcases World’s First 64-bit ARM v8 Core
October 27 2011 - 3:06PM
Business Wire
Applied Micro Circuits Corporation (NASDAQ:AMCC), or
AppliedMicro, today demonstrated core functionality of the world’s
first 64-bit ARM processor on an FPGA platform during ARM TechCon
2011. This milestone comes on the same day as ARM Holdings’
announcement of its 64-bit ARMv8 instruction set architecture, and
parallels AppliedMicro’s launch of the industry’s first 64-bit ARM
“Server-on-a-Chip” solution in a single footprint, designed to
deliver disruptively low power and cost points.
“The demonstration marks a fundamental achievement by
AppliedMicro’s engineering team to provide a proof of a single PMD
core running both UBoot and 64-bit Linux,” said Vinay Ravuri, Vice
President of AppliedMicro’s Embedded and Processing Business Unit.
“It also provides pre-silicon customer evaluation of our 64-bit ARM
solution and paves the way for a more sustainable future of cloud
computing as we leverage this architecture to provide
high-performance devices that consume less power and lower costs
compared to today’s server chips.”
The demonstration platform consists of Xilinx Virtex-6 running
Server SoC consisting of ARM-64 CPU complex, coherent CPU fabric,
high performance I/O network, memory subsystem along with fully
functional SoC subsystem.
Applied Micro’s 64-bit processor family will leverage a large
installed base of ARM software and hardware solutions and appeal to
the open-source software community, similar to its 32-bit
predecessor. With tremendous interest shown by top-tier OEMs and
ODMs in the cloud computing space, the platform is fully enabled
with server class open-source Linux distributions. Additionally
Applied Micro is working with a number of server-class and embedded
Linux vendors. Full open-source compilers and tool chains will be
provided by AppliedMicro and ARM ecosystem partners. Additionally,
optimized compilers, tool chains, and debuggers will be provided by
key strategic partners.
Full ecosystem support for the FPGA platform with performance
metrics will be available for customer evaluation by the first half
of 2012. A full suite of cloud computing applications driving
various target workloads, such as Web, Memcached, Hadoop,
Webserver, will also be available in that timeframe.
AppliedMicro Overview
AppliedMicro is a global leader in energy conscious computing
solutions for telco, enterprise, data center, consumer and SMB
applications. With a 30-year heritage as an innovator in high-speed
connectivity and high performance embedded processing, AppliedMicro
employs SoCs to provide energy efficient products that can deliver
up to a 40 percent reduction in power consumption without
sacrificing performance. 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.apm.com.
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