Acceleration technologies for the embedded design community
Intel® QuickAssist Technology is an Intel initiative to help developers more easily integrate embedded accelerators in their designs. Intel® QuickAssist Technology helps developers:
- Decrease development time by avoiding the need to develop proprietary acceleration layers for each new design, device, or appliance.
- Accelerate performance for demanding applications with specific hardware acceleration modules.
- Support migration to designs using system-on-chip (SOC) and multi-core processors.
- Increase business flexibility with solutions that fit changing business requirements without being tied to a particular accelerator.
- Migrate from one technology to another with minimum impact to applications by using an Accelerator Abstraction Layer (AAL).
- Support small form factor accelerators with system-on-chip (SOC) processors.
Simplified accelerator integration and development
Intel® QuickAssist Technology defines a unified set of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), providing consistent conventions and semantics across multiple accelerator solutions offered by a range of accelerator vendors. Implementations can range from optimized software algorithms to high-performance hardware accelerators and integrated Intel® SOC processors.
See which Intel® products have Intel QuickAssist Technology built in.
For more details about embedded design with Intel® QuickAssist Technology, visit the Embedded Design Center
Accelerator Abstraction Layer (AAL)
Intel® QuickAssist Technology’s Accelerator Abstraction Layer provides a uniform method for applications to communicate with accelerators and acceleration technologies and manage them as resources. This simplifies accelerator implementation across platforms and technologies, especially as underlying hardware systems evolve over time. Learn more about how the AAL simplifies the use of deployment of accelerators in this white paper.
Intel SOC processor with Intel® QuickAssist technology
The Intel® EP80579 Integrated processor combines Intel® QuickAssist Technology with an Intel® architecture core, memory controller, and I/O controller into a SOC processor optimized for appliances and application-specific designs. The Intel® SOC processor supports a broad range of communications and security applications, delivering performance and power efficiency in a small footprint.
