Overview of Intel SoCs for Embedded Systems

Intel's new product "Intel SoC" is a hard processor system (HPS) consisting of a dual-core ARM® Cortex™-A9 MPCore™ processor, a memory controller, and a rich set of peripherals, and a 28nm FPGA fabric (Cyclone® V and Arria® V). A high-bandwidth interconnect is used to connect between the processor system and the FPGA. ARM-based SoCs are user-customizable and combine the performance and low power consumption of hard IP with the flexibility of programmable logic and the benefits of the powerful software ecosystem of the ARM architecture.

Intel SoC Features

The system architecture of the Intel SoC provided by Intel is as follows and has various features.

processor
	Dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore processor
	4,000 MIPS (up to 800 MHz per core)
	NEON™ coprocessor with double-precision FPU
	32 KB / 32 KB L1 cache per core
	512 KB of shared L2 cache
Multiport SDRAM controller
	DDR3 and LPDDR2 up to 533 MHz
	DDR2 up to 400MHz
	Mobile DDR up to 200MHz
	Integrated ECC support
Wide bandwidth on-chip interface
	HPS-FPGA interface over 100 Gbps
	FPGA-SDRAM interface over 100 Gbps
Cost and power optimized FPGA fabric
	Lowest power transceiver
	Up to 1,600 GMACS, 300 GFLOPS
	Internal RAM up to 25 Mbit
	More Hard IP (Intellectual Property): PCIe® and Memory Controllers
Flexible configuration
Abundant development environment
Partner ecosystem
Achieving Low Power Consumption in Intel SoC
Cross trigger (ARM and FPGA co-debug on Intel SoC)
Intel SoC Community Portal Site
start development
	Preparation for development
	Get started with SoC development

5 Reasons to Design with Intel SoCs

Reduced board size

Minimize board size and complexity by reducing the number of devices on the board by integrating FPGA, microprocessor, and DSP functions on a single chip

Reduced power consumption

インテル SoC を利用すれば、インテルに最適化された 28nm Low-Power (28LP) プロセス・テクノロジ、豊富なハード IP 群、および低消費電力シリアル・トランシーバを活用可能

Reduce total system cost

必要なディスクリート・デバイス、電源レール、およびオシレータの数が少なくてすむため、部品 (BOM) コストの削減を実現

Design with FPGA flexibility

Quickly build a custom ARM processor system by choosing the best IP cores. In addition, flexible FPGA fabric supports changing industry standards and market demands. In addition, you can quickly develop custom hardware designs using the Quartus® II development software and Qsys system integration tools

Common development tools

Leverage ARM's strong ecosystem of software development tools, operating systems and middleware

Further Expanding 28nm FPGA Portfolio

Intel offers a complete 28nm device portfolio to suit your diverse design requirements.

SoC FPGAs expands on the extensive Cyclone V SoC FPGA and Arria V SoC FPGA families. Each device family is differentiated by part number by optimizing requirements for performance, I/O resources, package size, power consumption and cost.

Intel SoC details and reference information

Cyclone V FPGA Family

Arria V FPGA Family

ARM Cortex-A9 processor

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