Drivers, firmware, tools and ecosystem products for software developers
Intel® Accelerated DSP Software (Intel® ADS) is a scalable modular software architecture framework to run DSP application and signal processing workloads on Intel® Architecture.
Introduction to N.A. Software AltiVec* SIMD macros translator software. Software is provided ‘as is.’ Intel does not provide support.
File Type/Size: PDF 865KB
Version: April 2009
This tool is a modified version of the Altivec.h file (altivec2sse.h) which uses the same Motorola interface but targets Intel processors with the SSE4 level of SIMD support. The user guide is enclosed with the tool package.
Webinar details N.A. Software AltiVec* SIMD macros translator migration to Intel® processors. See challenges, tools, utilities, schedule/release of tools and software, and beta testing.
Version: 001 : May 2009
Learn more about what the CriticalBlue* Prism* tool can offer to help optimize software code for Intel® multi-core processors and Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions.
Learn more about what all Intel® software tools that are included in the Intel® SPDK and how to use them to develop and optimize applications for Intel® Architecture.
This report from N.A. Software* compares the performance of N series and Z series Intel® Atom™ processors with other embedded processors in DSP applications.
How developers can quickly create more powerful and flexible platforms that perform machine learning and real-time analytics on Intel® architecture.
Version: 001 : July 2011
This whitepaper looks at how well the current family of Intel® low power processors perform against PowerPC* processors.
Product Brief: Intel® Embedded Graphics Drivers (IEGD) v10.4
Find the high level overview of IEGD, its features and benefits, and information of the supported Intel® products and operating systems.
Version: 001 : February 2011
White Paper: Hybrid Multi-monitor Support Enabling new usage models for Intel® Embedded Platforms
Intel® graphics drivers enable simultaneous operation with add-in or external graphics allowing operability of more than two independently driven displays.
Version: 1 : January 2010
White Paper: Optimizing 3D Applications for Platforms Based on Intel® Atom™
This paper presents 3D application optimization techniques suitable for low-power platforms based on the Intel® Atom™ processor and the POWERVR* SGX graphics core.
File Type/Size: PDF 510KB
Version: 001 : March 2010
Product Brief: Intel® Embedded Media and Graphics Driver (Intel® EMGD) v1.10
This document provides high level product overview, features, devices, operating systems and APIs supported by this version of the drivers.
Version: 006 : November 2011
Video: Performance Enhancements with Intel® Embedded Graphics Drivers
Find details on embedded development as Intel® EMGD driver runs on the Atom™ E6xx or the US15W chipset platforms, focusing on enhanced graphics and features with performance results.
Version: 001 : October 2010
White Paper: Video Encoding Accelerator Solution for Intel® Atom™ Processor E6xx Series
This paper describes video encode hardware acceleration capability of Intel® Atom™ processor E6xx series along with software stack details including OS, drivers, and middleware.
Version: 001 : September 2010
This app note covers the extended battery life (EBL) technique, Intel® Display Power Saving Technology (Intel® DPST) and Intel® Automatic Display Brightness.
File Type/Size: PDF 708KB
This package contains the drivers for graphics and audio for the 2nd Generation Intel® Core™ Processor family and Intel® Xeon® Processor E3-1200 series for WES2009*.
Version: 14.46.0.5313 : December 2010
This package contains the 32bit version of drivers for graphics and audio for the 2nd Generation Intel® Core™ Processors and Intel® Xeon® Processor E3-1200 series for Windows 7* and WES7*.
Version: 15.22.54.2622 : January 2012
This package contains the 64bit version of drivers for graphics and audio for the 2nd Generation Intel® Core™ Processors and Intel® Xeon® Processor E3-1200 series for Windows 7* and WES7*.
Version: 15.22.54.64.2622 : January 2012
This package contains the 32bit version of drivers for graphics and audio for the 2nd Generation Intel® Core™ Processors and Intel® Xeon® Processor E3-1200 series for Windows XP* and Windows embedded POSReady2009*.
Version: 14.46.9.5394 : November 2011
This package contains the 64bit version of drivers for graphics and audio for the 2nd Generation Intel® Core™ Processors and Intel® Xeon® Processor E3-1200 series for Windows XP* and Windows Embedded POSReady2009*.
Version: 14.46.9.64.5394 : November 2011
Find graphics and audio drivers for Intel® Core™ and Intel® Xeon® Processor E3-1200 series for Windows 7*, Windows Embedded Standard 7*, and Windows Embedded POSReady 7*, - 32-bit version.
File Type/Size: application/zip 38,911KB
Version: 15.17.18.2555 : March 2012
Find graphics and audio drivers for Intel® Core™ and Intel® Xeon® Processor E3-1200 series for Windows 7*, Windows Embedded Standard 7*, and Windows Embedded POSReady 7*, - 64-bit version.
File Type/Size: application/octet-stream 40,929KB
Version: 15.17.18.2555 : March 2012
Find graphics and audio drivers for 2nd Generation Intel® Core™ and Intel® Xeon® Processor E3-1200 series for Windows XP*, WES2009*, and Windows Embedded POSReady 2009* - 32-bit version.
File Type/Size: application/x-download 18,012KB
Version: 14.42.13.5402 : March 2012
Find graphics and audio drivers for 2nd Generation Intel® Core™ and Intel® Xeon® Processor E3-1200 series for Windows XP*, WES2009*, and Windows Embedded POSReady 2009* - 64-bit version.
File Type/Size: application/x-download 24,250KB
Version: 14.42.13.5402 : March 2012
Details on supported Operating Systems, APIs, System BIOS, Driverm Hardware-Accelerated Video Decode, Display Output, and Video BIOS features.
Version: 001 : April 2011
Intel® Graphics Technology provides high-quality video playback optimized for Blu-ray* and HD video.
This document provides high level overview of the Intel® Built-in Visuals (HD, 3D graphics, and accelerated video capabilities) related to the 2nd generation Intel® Core™ processors.
Version: 001 : June 2011
This document provides high level overview of the Intel® HD Graphics related to the Intel® Pentium® and Celeron® processors based on Intel® micro-architecture codenamed Sandy Bridge.
Version: 001 : June 2011
This document captures the requirements for Intel® High Definition Audio High Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI*)/Display Port Interface Driver.
Version: 0.9 : August 2010
This document captures the complete requirements for the Intel® HD Graphics software and supports the Intel® 5 Series and Mobile Intel® 5 Series Chipset families and 2nd Generation Intel® Core™ Processor Graphics.
Version: 1.1 : March 2011
This document summarizes relevant Content Protection related usage models and how they may impact Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) software implementations.
Version: 1.31 : February 2010
This document summarizes relevant Display Persistence related usage models and how they may impact Intel® GMA software implementations for the Windows XP* and Windows Vista* OS.
Version: 1.31 : February 2010
This document summarizes relevant Video BIOS related usage models and how they may impact Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) software implementations.
Version: 1.2 : November 2011
This document provides usage models of all CUI features and functions, and high-level details on topics such as flexibility, implementation and validation.
Version: 001 : September 2010
This document summarizes relevant Display related usage models and how they impact Intel® HD Graphics software implementations.
Version: 1.1.1 : August 2011
This document provides an overview of the installer portion of the Intel® HD Graphics Driver, the associated behavior, and features supported with the use of this software.
Version: 1.2 : November 2011
This document summarizes relevant Power Management and Power Conservation related usage models for Windows* XP, Windows Vista* and Windows* 7, and how they may impact Intel® HD Graphics software implementations.
Version: 1.2 : November 2011
This document summarizes relevant Rotation related usage models and how they may impact Intel® HD Graphics software implementations.
Version: 1.2 : November 2011
This document summarizes relevant Video related usage models and how they may impact Intel® HD Graphics software implementations.
Version: 1.2 : November 2011
This document intends to provide a high-level understanding of display audio functionality for HDMI* and DisplayPort*.
Version: 1.3 : August 2009
Displays the current clock render frequency and memory frequency for specific chipsets.
File Type/Size: application/octet-stream 1,780KB
Version: 2.0.0.1115 : March 2012
This tool pvoides the API functions for Intel® HD Graphics drivers to support the VESA Display Data Channel/Command Interface (DDC/CI) across a DVI, HDMI*, VGA or DisplayPort* connection.
Version: 1.1
This package provides the necessary tools, samples and documentation for performing the compliance testing for HDMI and DisplayPort interfaces.
This tool uses command prompt interface and allows to read system BIOS settings and helps debug Audio WHQL issues with combinations of multiple digital ports.
Version: 1 : July 2010
This tool provides the value for programming IGD DVMT in BIOS based on parameters such as platform, OS and memory configuration.
Version: 1.0.9
This BETA version of tool supports 2nd Generation of Intel® Core™ processors. This tool provides platform-level game performance analysis to help you optimize for system hardware.
Version: 3.1 : August 2010
The utility provides both a feedback mechanism and an interface to commonly used Power Conservation (PC) features. It helps validate and debug PC features.
The media check tool determines whether Protected Audio Video Path (PAVP) setup is correct on Intel® chipset. User guide is enclosed with the tool.
Find Intel® GMA 600 driver, Intel Display Audio driver, VBIOS, chipset SW installation utility, BMP, for Intel® Atom™ processor Z6xx series with Intel SM35 Express Chipset based systems.
File Type/Size: ZIP 41,817KB
Version: 3072 : November 2011
This document is for OEMs to provides an overview and installation information on CUI. It also describes how to customize the CUI software to provide a unique look and feel.
Version: 0.93 : April 2011
This document is prepared to assist customers with using the Binary Modification Program for modifying Video BIOS Table (VBT).
Version: 3.1 : July 2011
This Microsoft* Windows- based program allows OEMs to customize their video BIOS and enable driver features for their platform.
File Type/Size: ZIP 8,751KB
This paper provides a rudimentary overview of the basics of graphics and video processing while highlighting some attributes of the Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator 500 graphics core.
File Type/Size: PDF 126KB
This document describes the memory allocation and usage model scenarios of the Intel® HD Graphics Driver.
Version: 1.8 : November 2011
This whitepaper provides an overview of Stereoscopic 3D setup and recommend configuration details for OEMs and systems integrators for playback of Blu-Ray* Stereo3D content.
Version: 0.81 : October 2010
Intel provides development drivers for Intel® Integrated Graphics to the open source community.
Version: November 2008
This provides instructions for the hands-on lab training on how to install, and configure an OS of choice on the Intel® Atom™ processor – based development board.
Version: February 2011
This paper provides the introduction to the various components in the Linux graphics stack and an understanding of how they interact. It also talks about embedded specific use cases.
Version: 001 : April 2011
This document summarizes relevant Video BIOS related usage models and how they may impact Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) software implementations.
Version: 1.2 : November 2011
This Microsoft* Windows- based program allows OEMs to customize their video BIOS and enable driver features for their platform.
File Type/Size: ZIP 8,751KB
ALT Software* is a leader in optimized 2D/3D embedded OpenGL graphics products as well as general and DO-178B professional development services.
The package contains the RAID and AHCI drivers and administrative RAID management tool utility for Intel® 6 Series and Intel® C200 Series Chipset for Windows XP*, Windows 7*and Windows Embedded Standard 7*.
Version: 10.1.0.1008
The package contains the RAID and AHCI drivers and administrative RAID management tool utility for Intel® 6 Series and Intel® C200 Series Chipset for Windows Embedded Standard 2009*.
Version: 10.1.0.1046
This document provides the details related to issue of current Intel® Rapid Storage Technology driver not supporting hard disk drives with capacity 2 terabytes or greater.
Version: 002 : June 2010
This white paper describes how to support Intel® Rapid Storage Technology (Intel® RST) in Linux* for mobile, desktop and workstation platforms.
Version: 001 : August 2011
The production installer for Intel® Ethernet driver support files, Windows* CE5, CE6, WEC7, KITL and XP Embedded: Review the DriverSelectionGuide.txtfile for a listing of supported devices.
File Type/Size: application/octet-stream 2,509KB
Version: 11.1 : April 2012
The package contains files that can be used to install drivers for Intel® Gigabit Ethernet devices for WES2009*
Version: 15.6C00030 : October 2010
Intel® 82574 GbE Controller Family Driver Download
This package contains the software and drivers for Intel® PRO/100, Intel® Gigabit, and Intel® 10GbE network adapters and integrated network connections.
Version: 16.8 : December 2011
This utility is for BIOS developers to create an Intel Boot Agent image for inclusion in a BIOS supporting Intel® 10/100, gigabit or 10 gigabit LAN silicon.
File Type/Size: ZIP 1,495KB
Version: 17.1 : April 2012
Learn about the application and system architecture and programming environment of the GbE controller and PHY, including instruction set reference information and optimization techniques.
File Type/Size: PDF 1,956KB
Version: 1.8 : July 2009
This SDK provides a common code-base for application development, diagnostics and tools for Intel network adapters.
Version: 17.1 : May 2012
This link provides drivers, BIOS, utilities, firmware, patches, updates, plug-ins and other support software.
Understand adoption of symmetric multi-processing using VxWorks* and Intel® multi-core processors.
This documents covers the three issues - Kerberos ticket size limitations, Kerberos connectivity issue and Mulit-domain support issue.
Version: 1.1 : February 2011
Intel® Active Management Technology (Intel® AMT) enables cost-effective remote management of networked embedded systems even when the systems are powered off.
Overview of Intel® Active Management Technology.
File Type/Size: PDF 2,266KB
Best known methods for troubleshooting Intel® Active Management Technology.
File Type/Size: PDF 205KB
Overview of Intel® AMT Software Development Kit (SDK) and Development Tool Kit (DTK) including quick and easy introduction to Intel® AMT application programming.
File Type/Size: PDF 3,619KB
This document describes the interaction and dependencies between the Intel® ME in the system chipset and the embedded controller (EC) while operating in various system power states.
Version: 0.7 : April 2010
This package contains software patch files and document detailing steps to upgrade the Intel® AMT 5.0 MEI and LMS drivers to build and run on Linux kernel* v2.6.32.
File Type/Size: application/zip 69KB
This document outline the steps to upgrade the Intel® AMT 5.0 MEI and LMS drivers to build and run on Linux kernel* v2.6.32.
Version: 001 : July 2010
Step-by-step instructions for the setup and use of Intel® Active Management Technology, with details on accessing software, AMT drivers, BIOS images and more, for custom configuration.
Version: 001 : December 2008
This video demos the Intel® Active Management Technology (Intel® AMT) feature for automatic hard disk swap for boot up fail due to software corruption.
Version: 1 : December 2010
This video demos the Intel® Active Management Technology (Intel® AMT) feature for automatic recovery and diagnostic for blue screen due to hard disk drive fail.
Version: 1 : December 2010
By using Intel® Active Management Technology, see time efficiency and tracking increase, costs decrease, while remote system accountability is ensured with continuous protection.
Version: 001 : July 2009
This document outlines the steps to upgrade the Intel® AMT 5.0 MEI and LMS drivers to build and run on Linux* kernel v2.6.31.
File Type/Size: - 193KB
Version: 1.0 : June 2010
This document describes the architecture and interfaces for the Intel® EP80579 software drivers for embedded applications.
Version: 004 : July 2009
This document is a reference manual for the Intel® QuickAssist Technology IP Telephony API.
Version: 1.2 Revision-002 : November 2008
This document is a reference manual for the Intel® QuickAssist Technology TDM I/O Access API.
Version: 1.2 Revision-002 : November 2008
This document is a reference manual for the Intel® QuickAssist Technology Cryptographic API.
Version: 003 : May 2009
This is a reference manual for the Intel® QuickAssist Technology Debug Services API.
Version: 001 : July 2008
This application note describes how to patch OpenSSL* to use the OpenBSD/FreeBSD Cryptographic Framework (OCF) engine on Linux*.
Version: 001 : September 2008
This document provides a snapshot of the software capabilities of the Intel® Atom™ E6xx Processor series and describes its major software components including firmware, drivers, operating system and tools.
Version: 001 : December 2010
Learn how to apply General Purpose Input/Output (GPIO) in software including the registers associated with the GPIO hardware pins and code samples for use in driver development.
File Type/Size: PDF 139KB
Version: 002 : March 2010
This document enables the reader to use the software and modify their own implementation of an SRTP stack to use EP80579 integrated processor software.
Version: 002 : November 2008
This package contains the drivers for all the interfaces such as USB, SATA, I2C, SPI of the Intel® Platform Controller Hub EG20T for Windows 7* and Windows Embedded Standard 7*.
Version: 1.2 : February 2012
This package contains the drivers for all the interfaces such as USB, SATA, I2C, SPI of the Intel® Platform Controller Hub EG20T for Windows Embedded Standard 2009* operating system.
Version: 2.5.0 : May 2012
This package contains the drivers for all the interfaces of the Intel® Platform Controller hub EG20T for Windows XP* and Windows Embedded POSReady* operating system.
Version: 2.5.0 : May 2012
This package contains ONLY the SATA drivers for the Intel® PCH EG20T for Windows 7* and Embedded Standard 7*. For other drivers, download Intel® PCH EG20T I/O Hub Driver for Win7* and WES7*.
Version: 1.1 : April 2012
This package contains USB client drivers for Windows XP, Embedded XP and WEPOS* operating system for Intel® SCH US15W.
This getting started guide documents the instructions to obtain, build, install and execute the software release package for the FreeBSD* OS.
Version: 002 : November 2008
This getting started guide documents the instructions to obtain, build, install and execute the software release package for the Linux* OS.
Version: 003 : November 2008
This getting started guide documents the instructions to obtain, build, install and execute the software release package for the Windows XP Embedded* OS.
Version: 003 : November 2008
This getting started guide provides the instructions to obtain, build, install and execute Intel® EP80579 Software for IP Telephony on Intel® QuickAssist Technology release package.
Version: 002 : December 2008
This getting started guide documents how to obtain, build, install and execute the Intel® EP80579 Software for Security Applications on Intel® QuickAssist Technology for Linux*.
Version: 003 : November 2008
This utility installs the INF files that provides the Windows Embedded Standard 2009* operating system with information about a piece of hardware on the system.
Version: 9.1.2.1012 : October 2010
This utility installs the INF files that provide the Windows XP* and Windows 7* OS with information about a piece of hardware on the system. This does not install any drivers.
Version: 9.1.2.1013 : December 2010
This utility installs the INF files that provide the Windows Embedded Standard 2009* OS with information about a piece of hardware on the system.
Version: 9.2.0.1013
This utility installs the INF files that provide the Windows XP*, Windows 7* and Windows Embedded Standard 7* OS with information about a piece of hardware on the system.
Version: 9.2.0.1021 : December 2010
This utility installs the INF files that provide the Windows* operating system with information about a piece of hardware on the system.
This site includes downloads for all supported operating systems.
Version: 8.6.0.1006
Download software utilities and drivers for the Intel® 5100 MCH Chipset, selectable by operating system.
Intel® EP80579 software drivers for embedded applications on CentOS* Linux* 5.2.
Version: Embedded.L.1.0.3 : September 2009
This download site contains the EP80579 software drivers for embedded applications on FreeBSD*.
Version: Embedded.B.1.0.3 : September 2009
This download site contains the EP80579 software drivers for embedded applications on Windows* XP Embedded.
Version: Embedded.X.1.0.3 : September 2009
This document describes extensions to the release functionality described in Intel® EP80579 Software Drivers for Embedded Applications Programmer's Guide and API Reference Manual.
Version: 014 : June 2010
This download site contains the EP80579 software drivers for IP Telephony applications on Intel® QuickAssist Technology on Linux.
Version: Telephony.L.1.0.1 : March 2009
This paper describes the time-constrained application (using a voice application as an example) on a non-real-time OS (RHLE5) on the Intel® EP80579 Integrated Processor.
Version: 001 : September 2008
This document provides an overview of the silicon, software architecture and using the API to build an accelerated telephony application.
Version: 003 : May 2009
This document describes extensions to the release functionality described in Intel® EP80579 Software for IP Telephony Applications on Intel® QuickAssist Technology Programmer's Guide.
Version: 009 : June 2010
This archive contains the HSS Channel Driver for Asterisk* for use with Intel® EP80579 Software for IP Telephony Applications package.
Version: Telephony.L.1.0 : September 2008
This download site contains the EP80579 software drivers for security applications on Intel® QuickAssist Technology on Linux.
Version: Security.L.1.0.3 : September 2009
Intel® EP80579 software drivers for security applications on Intel® QuickAssist Technology on Linux*.
Version: Security.B.1.0.3 : September 2009
This document provides an overview of the silicon, software architecture and using the API to build an accelerated security appliance.
Version: 004 : August 2009
Extensions to the release functionality described in Intel® EP80579 Software for Security Applications on Intel® QuickAssist Technology Programmer's Guide.
Version: 013 : June 2010
Find drivers, BIOS, utilities, firmware, patches, updates, plug-ins and other support software.
INF Utility Microsoft Operating Systems updates Windows* operating system with server chipset branding information and instructs the OS to load appropriate drivers.
File Type/Size: ZIP 2,219KB
Software drivers needed to utilize hardware features on the Intel® EP80579 Integrated Processor.
Version: 004 : February 2009
The Intel® EP80579 Software for IP Telephony Applications on Intel® QuickAssist Technology package enables acceleration of cryptography and TDM processing.
Version: 002 : November 2008
The Intel® EP80579 Software for security applications on Intel® QuickAssist Technology package enables acceleration of cryptographic and packet processing.
Version: 002 : November 2008
This document describes the CAN driver interfaces exposed to the user mode applications and how to use those interfaces to drive the CAN hardware to achieve effective communication.
Version: 002 : February 2011
This document provides the programming details of DMA Controller driver for Windows* including information about the interfaces and how to use those interfaces to drive the DMA hardware.
Version: 002 : March 2011
This document provides the programming details of GPIO driver for Windows* including information about the interfaces and how to use those interfaces to drive the GPIO hardware.
Version: 002 : February 2011
This document describes the IEEE1588 hardware assist driver interfaces exposed to the user mode applications and how to use those interfaces to drive the IEEE1588 hardware.
Version: 002 : March 2011
This document provides the programming details of I2C* driver for Windows* including information about the interfaces and how to use those interfaces to drive the I2C*hardware.
Version: 002 : February 2011
This document provides the programming details of Packet HUB driver for Windows* including information about the interfaces and how to use those interfaces to drive the Packet HUB hardware.
Version: 002 : February 2011
This document provides the programming details of SPI driver for Windows* including information about the interfaces and how to use those interfaces to drive the SPI hardware.
Version: 002 : February 2011
Find details on the UART Controller driver for Windows*, how to use the interfaces; and DMA driver API programming details used by the UART driver for data transmission at higher baud rates.
Version: 002 : March 2011
This document provides the programming details of USB device driver for Windows* including information about the interfaces and how to use those interfaces to drive the USB hardware.
Version: 002 : March 2011
The getting started guide documents the instructions to obtain, build, install and execute the software release packages for the Intel® EP80579 Integrated Processor product line.
Version: 002 : October 2008
Guidelines for porting software to the Intel® EP80579 Integrated Processor product line.
Version: 003 : June 2009
This document is intended for developers who need to support other PHYs on Linux.
Version: 009 : November 2009
Utility Software are functional applications used to test, check and demo certain features.
Version: 3.3.3.1095 : April 2010
Find step-by-step installation guide on how to install WES7* on your Intel® Atom™ processor-based system.
Source for operating systems.
This document provides LEPD – Intel® Atom™ product line roadmap, relevant software strategies, operating systems supported, features and benefits, milestones and timelines.
Version: 001 : August 2011
Find step-by-step installation guide on how to install MeeGo* operating system on your Intel® Atom™ processor-based system.
Find step-by-step guide to install Ubuntu* on the 1-N450 development board
Find step-by-step guide on how to install multiple operating system and configure the bootloader to recognize all operating systems.
Start creating software for various device categories on Intel® Atom™ processor.
This document provides LEPD – Intel® Atom™ product line roadmap, relevant software strategies, operating systems supported, features and benefits, milestones and timelines.
Version: 001 : August 2011
It provides instructions for installing a solid state drive (SSD) image that contains the MeeGo* 1.2 Linux O/S along with pre-installed Intel® chipset, I2C, wireless, and graphics drivers.
Version: 001 : July 2011
Source for operating systems.
Learn more about Android* implementation for Intel® Atom™.
Version: 1 : October 2011
Follow this hypervisor layer installation guide using free package of open source hypervisor (Xen* 3.0) and CentOS* 5.5 on the Intel® platform. (Find associated white paper here.)
Version: 001 : October 2010
Learn how you can quickly and easily create a custom embedded Linux for your embedded device on any architecture.
Version: 1 : October 2011
Redhat* outlines the important considerations, best practices and resources for migrations from a RISC-based platform to Intel® architecture.
Version: April 2004
Hard real-time operating system approaches to make standard Linux* real-time tasks executed by a real-time kernel while normal Linux processes are suspended.
Version: October 2009
This guide provides user the flexibility to choose specific versions of Xen*, Dom0 or Guest OSs, so as to have control of all aspects of building a virtualization development platform.
Version: 001 : October 2010
Step-by-step instructions to install a hypervisor layer using all-in-one free package of open source hypervisor (Xen* 3.0) and OS (CentOS* 5.5) on your Intel platform.
Version: 001 : July 2010
Wind River Linux* is a commercial-grade Linux operating system for embedded device development based on Linux kernel 2.6.34+ and GCC 4.4.1/eglibc 2.11/gdb 7 toolchains.
An open source collaboration project that provides templates, tools and methods to help you create custom Linux-based systems for embedded products.
Multi-core processors enable single platforms to run RTOS and general purpose OS reducing resource requirements and costs.
Version: 001 : January 2006
INTEGRITY* RTOS is a secure, royalty-free real-time operating system intended for use in embedded systems.
The velOSity* microkernel is small, fast and royalty free, and designed for cost-sensitive, high-volume and resource constrained embedded applications.
The LynxOS* RTOS is the hard real-time operating system (RTOS) for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and telecommunications equipment manufacturers (TEMs).
The QNX Neutrino* RTOS provides a reliable microkernel architecture, robust memory protection, transparent networking, POSIX-based portability and a high-performance windowing system.
INtime* software combines deterministic, hard real-time control with standard Windows operating systems.
iRMX* for Windows features legacy support for existing applications and provides a migration path for real-time applications to move to modern Windows technology.
Investigate the use of symmetric multi-processing and the VxWorks* SMP OS including software design considerations, methodologies, and tools to ease the multi-core software development cycle.
Version: 002 : February 2009
Wind River's VxWorks* provides commercial real-time operating system (RTOS) for embedded systems of all shapes and sizes.
VxWorks is an RTOS built on a highly scalable, deterministic, hard real-time kernel.
The board support package for Intel® Atom™ processor based systems using Windows* CE or Windows* Embedded Compact 7 operating systems is available for free from Adeneo* Embedded.
Version: December 2011
The board support package for Intel® Atom™ processor based systems using Windows* CE or Windows* Embedded Compact 7 operating systems is available for free from Bsquare*.
This board support package for Intel® Atom™ processor based systems using Timesys LinuxLink* embedded operating system is available for free.
The board support package for Intel® Atom™ processor based systems using Yocto* Project operating system is available for free.
BSP is the common name for all board hardware-specific code including the boot loader, the OEM adaptation layer (OAL), and board-specific device drivers.
Bsquare* provides a Windows CE 6.0* Board Support Package for the Intel® Atom™ platform, targeted at UMPC, MID, industrial control, kiosk, gaming, and medical device applications.
BSP files provide embedded developers the software needed to start evaluating development kits and customer reference boards.
File Type/Size: application/zip 512,000KB
BSP files provide embedded developers the software needed to start evaluating development kits and customer reference boards.
File Type/Size: application/zip 1,555,860KB
An Embedded Controller (EC) subsystem enables energy-conscious designs to obtain power savings.
This brief helps users understand how to implement Serial Peripheral Interface Flash and its uses in applications.
File Type/Size: PDF 280KB
Version: 1.0 : June 2008
This documents covers the three issues - Kerberos ticket size limitations, Kerberos connectivity issue and Mulit-domain support issue.
Version: 1.1 : February 2011
Intel® Active Management Technology (Intel® AMT) enables cost-effective remote management of networked embedded systems even when the systems are powered off.
Overview of Intel® Active Management Technology.
File Type/Size: PDF 2,266KB
Best known methods for troubleshooting Intel® Active Management Technology.
File Type/Size: PDF 205KB
Provisioning includes setup and configuration in the Manageability Engine to ensure a system with Intel® VPro™ technology is set up for remote manageability and operation.
File Type/Size: PDF 3,808KB
This package contains the ME firmware (1.5MB version) for Intel® 6 and Intel® C200 series chipset for Windows XP*, Windows 7* and Windows Embedded Standard 7* operating system.
Version: 7.0.10.1203 : February 2011
This package contains the ME firmware (5MB version) for Intel® 6 and Intel® C200 series chipset for Windows XP*, Windows 7* and Windows Embedded Standard 7* operating system.
Version: 7.0.10.1203 : February 2011
This package contains the Management Engine (ME) firmware for Intel® 6 and Intel® C200 series chipset for WES2009* operating system.
Version: 10.0.0.1046 : October 2010
This document describes the integration process for server platform services (SPS) firmware (FW) implemented on the manageability engine of the Intel® 5520 chipset.
File Type/Size: PDF 1,108KB
The Linux*-ready Firmware Developer Kit is a tool to test how well Linux works together with the firmware (BIOS or EFI) of your device.
Find assistance for manufacturing platforms that contain the Intel® Management Engine, to better support related technologies, to include Intel® Active Management Technology.
Version: 0.8 : June 2009
This presentation provides overview of technologies and new two chip platform partition and details needed to manufacture with the Intel® Management Engine (ME) firmware for 4MB SPI flash.
Version: 4 : April 2010
Get an overview of technologies, two new chip platform partitions, and the details needed to manufacture with the Intel® Management Engine (ME) firmware for 8MB SPI flash.
Version: 4 : April 2010
A description of firmware and software changes and new features including IPv6, fast call for help and keyboard-video-mouse redirection.
File Type/Size: PDF 956KB
Version: 1.1 : August 2009
Intel® AMT provides hardware-based, remote client and server manageability, healing, installation and applications support.
File Type/Size: PDF 1,350KB
Version: 1.5 : April 2010
Find requirements, features and functions for Intel® AMT 8.0 and the Intel® ME Tools, supported on 3rd Generation Intel® Core™ Processor with Intel® 7 Series Chipset-based platforms.
Version: 001 : October 2011
This document provides the requirements/features for Intel® AMT7.0 as supported on Intel® 6 Series Chipset or 2nd Generation Intel® Core™ Processors based platforms.
Version: 001 : October 2010
Find requirements, features and functions for the Intel® ME Infrastructure and Intel® AMT 8.0, supported on 3rd Generation Intel® Core™ Processor with Intel® 7 Series Chipset-based platforms.
Version: 001 : November 2011
This document provides information on programming SPI flash on Intel® 7 Series Chipsets based platforms (formerly Chief River and Maho Bay).
Version: 0.9 : September 2011
This document describes the interaction and dependencies between the Intel® ME in the system chipset and the embedded controller (EC) while operating in various system power states.
Version: 0.7 : April 2010
This document provides the changes in the strap pull-up and sampling time associated with security override mode of ME manufacturing on Intel® 6 Series Chipset.
Version: 001 : April 2011
Before use of the Intel® ME 1.5 MB FW kit, read through this quick checklist overview.
Version: 001 : August 2010
This guide provides OEMs and ODMs with the compliancy requirements for 2010/11 platform implementation and the methodology and tools to verify compliance for different Intel® Manageability FW and core components and technologies.
Version: 1.3 : December 2010
This document provides the compliancy requirements for 2010/11 platform implementation and the methodology and tools to verify compliance for different Intel® Manageability FW and core components and technologies.
Version: 1.4 : December 2010
This guide provides the compliancy requirements and methodology and tools to verify compliance for Intel® Manageability FW and core components and technologies.
Version: 1.3 : December 2011
This guide provides the compliancy requirements and methodology and tools to verify compliance for Intel® Manageability FW and core components and technologies.
Version: 1.4 : March 2012
This document provides the overview, installation process and how to use the Intel® Management Engine (ME) Debug Tool.
Version: 1.01 : October 2010
Guide for SPI flash usage prevents accidental or unauthorized flash reads/writes and guards against premature flash wear-out.
File Type/Size: PDF 143KB
Get a step-by-step overview of Intel® ME Test Suite and how it performs with these chipsets.
Version: 1 : December 2010
Know the technical issues to expect when building, debugging and deploying embedded firmware on an Intel® architecture system.
Version: January 2009
This document provides a guide to using Intel® 4MB Management Engine (ME) firmware, including details on the platform architecture, development, compliancy, validation, and manufacturing.
File Type/Size: PDF 339KB
Free AMI* Video BIOS Utility to extract, replace, insert, and delete PCI video option ROM modules from a ROM image file for Intel® Atom™ Processor E660 development kit.
This document clarifies various aspects of programming Serial Flash on the Intel® 5 Series Chipset and Intel® 3400 Series Chipset family.
File Type/Size: PDF 916KB
This manual is intended for OEMs and software vendors to clarify various aspects of programming Serial Flash on PCH family based platforms.
Version: 1.0 : July 2011
Learn the various aspects of programming SPI flash on ICH family based platforms. This includes compatibility requirements, configuring BIOS, image and programming tools, etc.
File Type/Size: PDF 929KB
This package contains the BIOS image with ECC enabled for the embedded platforms based on the 2nd Generation Intel® Core™ Processors and Intel® 6 Series chipset.
File Type/Size: application/zip 3,090KB
Version: 8 : June 2011
This version of the Intel® Atom™ Processor E6xx Series and Intel® Platform Controller Hub EG20T CRB BIOS 34 includes CMC C0_22211, CPU Microcode update M0220661105 and vBIOS 2032.
Version: 34 : January 2012
This version of the Intel® Atom™ Processor E6xx Series and Intel® Platform Controller Hub EG20T CRB BIOS 33 includes CMC C0_22211, CPU Microcode update M0220661105 and vBIOS 2032.
Version: 33 : December 2011
This package contains the BIOS image for the embedded platforms based on Intel® Xeon® Processor E3-1200 series and Intel® C200 series chipset.
Version: 79 : December 2011
Reference code that can be ported into specific system BIOS implementations.
File Type/Size: ZIP 119KB
Reference code that can be ported into specific system BIOS implementations.
File Type/Size: ZIP 507KB
Reference code that can be ported into specific system BIOS implementations.
File Type/Size: ZIP 1,703KB
Version: 1.11 : January 2011
Contains a descriptive overview of BIOS reference code and specification of the key interfaces in the reference code.
File Type/Size: ZIP 844KB
Reference code that can be ported into specific system BIOS implementations.
File Type/Size: ZIP 129KB
Version: .92 : September 2009
Reference code that can be ported into specific system BIOS implementations.
File Type/Size: ZIP 1,141KB
Version: 1.07 : December 2010
Reference code that can be ported into specific system BIOS implementations.
File Type/Size: ZIP 1,105KB
Update to the Lynnfield/Clarksfield Integrated Memory Controller (IMC) BIOS Specification, Rev 1.10.
File Type/Size: PDF 78KB
Describes programming requirements including software algorithms, initialization and configuration, reset control, register and operational requirements.
File Type/Size: PDF 266KB
This document is a compilation of device and document errata and specification clarifications and changes for already published documents.
Version: 1.2.2 : July 2011
Update to the Intel® Ibex Peak BIOS Specification, Rev 1.0.
File Type/Size: PDF 244KB
Version: 1.07 : November 2010
This document is a compilation of device and document errata and specification clarifications and changes for documents related to Intel® 6 Series Chipset and Intel® C200 Series Chipset.
Version: 0.8.1 : September 2010
This document is a compilation of device and document errata and specification clarifications and changes for documents related to Intel® 6 Series Chipset and Intel® C200 Series Chipset.
Version: 1.2.5 : December 2011
This document is an update to the specifications contained in the processor BIOS Writers Guide (BWG) Volumes 1 & 2.
Version: 1.21 : May 2011
Specification update: contains revised information about products including identification information, specification changes and clarifications, documentation changes and errata.
File Type/Size: PDF 85KB
This document is compilation of specification changes related to the chipset with most changes/clarification related to Reset Control mechanism and USB OTG.
Version: 1.22 : July 2011
Describes programming requirements, including initialization and configuration reset control register and operational requirements.
File Type/Size: PDF 151KB
Version: 1.4 : August 2010
Gold BIOS for Bitan 2—Customer Reference Board (CRB). Bitan is the code name for the 1st revision CRB. The Gold BIOS is validated to work with the Bitan CRB and is available for free.
File Type/Size: ZIP 1,005KB
BIOS update intended for use on Moon Creek customer reference boards.
File Type/Size: ZIP 4,053KB
Version: July 2011
This package contains the BIOS image for the CRB based on 2nd Generation Intel® Core™ processor and Intel® 6 Series Chipset and KSC Flash programming tool.
Version: 81 : April 2012
Reference code that can be ported into specific system BIOS implementations.
File Type/Size: ZIP 11,788KB
Version: 0.116 : February 2012
The utility allows manufacturing programming of EEPROMs, in cases where EEPROM is not preprogrammed, or programmed at in-circuit test.
Version: 1.0 : June 2008
The utility allows manufacturing programming of EEPROMs, in cases where EEPROM is not preprogrammed, or programmed at in-circuit test.
Version: 1.2 : July 2008
The utility allows manufacturing programming of EEPROMs, in cases where EEPROM is not preprogrammed, or programmed at in-circuit test.
Version: 1.1 : July 2008
This kit includes the BIOS for the platform, system tools and instructions on how to build an image with dual processor support.
Version: August 2010
Learn about the firmware and BIOS design considerations for platforms based on embedded Intel® architecture.
Use SoftStraps Editor and SCH Microcode Merge utility to update/merge Intel® System Controller Hub microcode into a BIOS ROM image, modify SoftStraps in either SCH micorcode, or BIOS ROM file.
File Type/Size: application/x-zip 396KB
Version: 2.72 : October 2009
BIOS 19 binary and release notes.
File Type/Size: ZIP 1,050KB
A BIOS image is provided to re-install the existing BIOS or install a new version of the BIOS on a platform.
File Type/Size: ZIP 470KB
This package provides utility and instructions for BIOS developers to create iSCSI Remote Boot image for use with a LAN on motherboard implementation.
Version: 17.1 : May 2012
Provides OEM BIOS setting recommendations for the best “out of the box” platform performance and power efficiency, including prefetchers, data reuse optimization, and RTID allocation.
File Type/Size: PDF 105KB
The pre-boot firmware image is provided to re-install or update the firmware on the EP80579 Development Board.
Version: TRXTG064 : September 2009
A BIOS image is provided to re-install the existing BIOS or install a new version of the BIOS. This is the firmware hub (FWH) image only and is not intended to be used to program the SPI.
File Type/Size: ZIP 469KB
A BIOS image is provided to re-install the existing BIOS or install a new version of the BIOS. This is the SPI image only and is not intended to be used to program the firmware hub (FWH).
File Type/Size: ZIP 471KB
Find v.1.8 PXE UNDI option ROM reference code here, specifically designed to support Intel® Atom™ Platform Controller Hub EG20T - A2 Stepping.
Version: 1.8 : March 2011
For easy reference, find release notes of the SATA ACHI OpROM here, which supports the installation and boot from a Legacy OS, from SATA- HDD and CD/DVDROM, respectively.
File Type/Size: application/zip 78KB
Version: 1.8 : June 2011
Drivers and utilities to aid in the BIOS software development for a TPM 1.2 device.
File Type/Size: ZIP 972KB
Checks the thermal settings in the BIOS on the platform.
File Type/Size: application/octet-stream 35KB
Version: 0.5.1 : October 2009
Tool can be used to flash the BIOS on the SPI region on the platform.
File Type/Size: application/octet-stream 1,844KB
Version: 4.1.1.1142 : May 2012
This document is an update to the Intel® ICH8 BIOS Specification Rev 1.0 identifying any Errata, clarifications, changes, etc.
File Type/Size: PDF 286KB
Version: 1.82 : June 2008
This document is a compilation of device and document errata and specification clarifications and changes for already published documents.
Version: 1.5.3 : February 2012
This update contains revised information about products including identification information, specification changes and clarifications, documentation changes and errata.
File Type/Size: PDF 338KB
This update includes fixes and additional information beyond what is contained in the 1.00 version of the Mobile Intel® 945 Express Chipset Family BIOS Specification.
File Type/Size: PDF 129KB
Version: 1.14 : August 2007
This document provides the overview of SPI sharing protocol, and electrical considerations associated with SPI usage.
Version: 0.7 : August 2010
This document provides the collateral update details related to Integrated Clock Control BIOS.
Version: 001 : April 2010
In this package find the tools and utilities - ftoolc.exe and fprog.exe for updating the BIOS/Flash.
Reference code that can be ported into specific system BIOS implementations.
File Type/Size: ZIP 232KB
This presentation provides an overview of some of the configuration options that may be available in the BIOS for Intel® architecture processors.
Version: 1 : November 2010
Don Feuerstein, ECG Technical Marketing Engineer, presents the mechanism on how to boot your board to DOS using the USB drive by modifying BIOS configuration settings.
Version: 001 : June 2010
It provides the list of third-party BIOS vendors Intel has partnered with for this platform and provides contacts that customers can use to enlist firmware and BIOS development support.
Version: 001 : November 2011
This firmware based on new Intel® Framework architecture is customizable to function as a boot loader or as full featured BIOS.
MobilePRO* BIOS provides a complete core BIOS, ACPI, hot docking and legacy power-management/plug and play solutions
Insyde* services include design-specific firmware, power management software, keyboard firmware, USB, device drivers and application integration.
Source for BIOS development tools.
The QNX* Initial Program Loader (IPL) start-up approach for Intel® architecture provides boot loader type functionality in real-time embedded applications.
AMI* Aptio provides a firmware solution based on EFI, UEFI and Intel® Platform Innovation Framework for EFI specifications.
American Megatrends* offers a hardware diagnostic solution for the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI).
This book provides reader with solid examples of how to implement the UEFI specification from booting a system to the constituent elements of building a platform with the framework.
Site for the community surrounding the open source components of Intel's implementation of EFI, officially called the Platform Innovation Framework for EFI.
This document is a guideline for new EDK II module developers, and provides detailed instructions on how to develop and build a new module, and how to release with a package.
Version: 0.7 : March 2010
This document provides guidance to aid the development of EFI drivers including design guidelines for different driver-related protocols and for PCI, USB and SCSI buses.
InsydeH2O* is Insyde Software's newest and most advanced product family for managing PC compatibility and interoperability based on Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI).
Developing and optimizing system initialization firmware.
A firmware implementation that conforms to the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) specification.
Learn the key features and time-to-market advantages of the Intel® UEFI Development Kit and Intel® Boot Loader Development Kit.
Version: 002 : April 2011
Phoenix* Embedded UEFI Core with SecureCore is UEFI 2.1-specification compliant, giving customers the latest proven EFI technology commercially available.
This describes the design elements for constructing platform firmware based on UEFI standard for Intel® architecture based platforms.
This specification defines the core code and services related to different phases of the platform initialization. It also describes firmware storage and hand-off block (HOB) concepts.
Version: 1.2 : July 2010
This document describes an interface between the operating system (OS) and the platform firmware so as to communicate the information necessary to support the OS boot process.
Version: 2.3.1 : April 2011
Find how the UEFI features are applicable for independent hardware vendors (IHVs) and how will UEFI benefits to IHVs. Also find recommendations from Dell*, LSI* and Phoenix Technologies*.
The Intel® UDK debugger tool helps debug UDK based firmware implementation on IA including Intel® BLDK. Execute the EXE file to install the tool and the user manual.
This paper documents the investigation/POC involving enabling a sub 2-second EFI BIOS boot time on embedded platforms featuring the Intel® Atom™ processor.
Version: September 2008
Zero Wait State BIOS (ZWSB) proposes a model to record and replay platform configuration to achieve a much faster boot time.
File Type/Size: PDF 337KB
Version: 0.1 : July 2008
This document presents methods to enable a BIOS engineer to optimize the underlying platform BIOS to reduce a platform’s boot speed, including UEFI and BIOS optimizations.
File Type/Size: PDF 449KB
This paper presents a series of methods and tips that enable a BIOS engineer to optimize the underlying platform BIOS so that it can reduce a platform’s boot speed.
Version: 001 : June 2009
Product Brief: Intel® Boot Loader Development Kit
Find overview of Intel® BLDK - a software toolkit that allows for creation of customized and optmized firmware for Embedded Intel® processor - based platforms.
Version: 001 : April 2011
White Paper: Minimal Intel® Architecture Boot Loader—Bare Bones Functionality Required for Booting an Intel® Architecture Platform
Documenting the order, minimum steps required, and a central repository of the various documents necessary to boot an Intel® Embedded platform.
Version: 1 : January 2010
Video: Reshaping the Intel® Architecture Firmware Landscape using Intel® Boot Loader Development Kit (Intel® BLDK)
Learn more about the Intel® Boot Loader Development Kit based on the Intel® UEFI Development Kit 2010 in this detailed overview.
Version: 1 : October 2011
AMIBIOS8* is a well supported and stable BIOS product adopted by all computing market segments.
Source for BIOS development tools.
The QNX* Initial Program Loader (IPL) start-up approach for Intel® architecture provides boot loader type functionality in real-time embedded applications.
This is AMI* flash utility that can be used to program the AMI BIOS/firmware hub (FWH).
Version: December 2008
QNX software* fastboot building automation is for fully distributed enterprise systems controlling building heating/cooling systems or security cameras.
Version: 001 : April 2010
Achieve instant-on functionality using QNX* fastboot technology to take advantage of the x86 compatibility and high performance per watt of Intel® Atom™ processors.
File Type/Size: PDF 569KB
The x86 ROM boot loader, or romboot, is a small-sized boot loader that resides in system flash memory, usually as 256 KB EEPROM.
This document summarizes relevant Video BIOS related usage models and how they may impact Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) software implementations.
Version: 1.2 : November 2011
This Microsoft* Windows- based program allows OEMs to customize their video BIOS and enable driver features for their platform.
File Type/Size: ZIP 8,751KB
Technical books on subjects including threading for multi-core, digital home technologies, graphics and gaming, software development and high performance computing.
Learn about the extensive development tools available for embedded designs based on Intel® architecture.
MULTI* is a complete integrated development environment for embedded applications using C, C++, Embedded C++, and FORTRAN.
Intel® C++ Studio XE combines Intel's industry-leading C++ compiler, libraries, error-checking, security, and profiling tools into a single tool suite.
This software suite helps you develop, analyze, and optimize performance of parallel applications for clusters using Intel® 32- and 64-bit architectures.
This suite combines Intel C++ and Fortran compilers, libraries, and error-checking, security, and profiling tools to maximize performance, security, and reliability on Windows* and Linux*.
It provides Visual Studio* C/C++ developers a tool suite that includes threading assistant, optimizing compiler and libraries, memory and threading error checker, and performance profiler.
Access a range of resources to learn how to improve the performance and reliability of serial and parallel applications.
This provides links to Intel® Parallel Studio and other software product documentation.
Search for software downloads by product name, file name or product ID.
QNX* Momentics* is a multi-language, multi-host, multi-target development suite.
A feature overview of the different tools available from the embedded developer ecosystem such as compiler, debugger, VTune, IPP, Thread Checker, and Thread Profiler.
Version: 001 : October 2009
This presentation provides a high-level overview of the software development tools available for embedded Intel® architecture.
Version: 1 : November 2010
Use Simics* to start the software development even before hardware system is available and reduce time to market and development cost.
Accelerate software performance using Intel® compilers. Compatible with other tools you use, Intel compilers integrate into popular development environments.
Green Hills* Optimizing compilers consist of a Language-Specific Front-End, a Global Optimizer and a Target-Specific Optimizer and Code Generator.
The paper describes the paradigms behind vectorized execution & how mainstream compilers analyze sequential code to determine ways for intra-register vectorization & efficient code generation.
This suite combines an optimizing compiler with high-performance libraries, advanced vectorization, support for Intel® PBB and OpenMP* for C++ developers.
Experience an optimizing compiler with high-performance libraries, advanced vectorization, support for Intel® PBB and OpenMP*, increasing speed and simplifying multi-core performance.
This suite combines an optimizing compiler with high-performance libraries, advanced vectorization, support for Intel® MKL for Fortran developers.
It includes an optimizing C / C++ compiler, performance libraries, and supports Intel® PBB, a comprehensive set of parallel development models to satisfy a wide range of requirements.
C++ and Fortran compilers with optimization features and multi-threading capabilities, optimized performance libraries, error-checking, security, and profiling tools.
Assembly language for debugging or performance tuning embedded applications including an example how analysis of the assembly language leads to tuning improvements to the original source code.
Version: 1 : January 2009
The goal of this paper is to provide a working knowledge of the process, tools, and best known methods for diagnosing, root causing and addressing software performance problems.
This tool suite lets you fine-tune Windows* applications for optimal performance, ensuring cores are fully exploited and new processor capabilities are utilized.
Optimize performance and multi-core scalability on Windows* and Linux*.
This presentation contains the best-known methods for maximizing software performance with processors based on Intel® Microarchitecture (Nehalem). (Requires Flash) Duration: 29:17.
This paper uses PiAutoSim*, a bench-top simulator, to show how upgrading the hardware and software development environment of an embedded product enables significant performance improvements.
Version: January 2009
An extensive library of multi-core ready, highly optimized software functions for digital media and data-processing applications.
Instructions to help you integrate the Intel® IPP library as part of an INtime* application.
Version: March 2009
A library of highly optimized, extensively threaded math routines for science, engineering, and financial applications that require maximum performance.
A runtime library that simplifies the writing of multithreaded applications.
This paper discusses the most important factors affecting DSP processing on Intel® architecture processors.
Version: 001 : January 2009
Making a successful transition to multi-core architecture requires software optimization. This paper presents platform-level optimizations that resulted in significant performance gains.
File Type/Size: PDF 292KB
Version: 001 : May 2009
Learn how to use Intel® Performance Primitives libraries to start a prototyping effort, with information on the Intel® VTune™ performance analyzer and the Intel® compiler.
Version: January 2009
The INtime ROS from Tnasys* used with IPP Libraries and Microsoft* Visual Studio IDE creates real-time applications that take advantage of the Intel® architecture SIMD instructions.
OpenMP* is a set of pragmas, function calls and environment variables that simplify the creation, synchronization and deletion of threads in your applications.
Version: September 2007
An analysis tool that pinpoints hard-to-find threading errors like data races and deadlocks in 32-bit and 64-bit applications.
This tool boosts software reliability by delivering the most comprehensive method for Visual Studio* C/C++ developers to analyze code and pinpoint latent multithreading and memory errors.
Get a summary of parallel programming steps to include identify, expose and express concurrency.
The shared cache architecture brings exciting new opportunities to software and system designers. This document first describes the overall benefits of the architecture.
Version: July 2007
Understand adoption of symmetric multi-processing using VxWorks* and Intel® multi-core processors.
Intel® Cilk™ Plus is an extension to C and C++ that offers a quick, easy and reliable way to improve the performance of programs on multi-core processors.
This tool simplifies threading your code by identifying those areas in your serial and parallel applications where parallelism would have the greatest impact.
QNX* provides a look at Intel multi-core solutions, with examples illustrating the issues developers face when moving to multi-core.
File Type/Size: PDF 1,534KB
Version: 4 : February 2009
Provides embedded engineers with the required skills to develop software for multi-core processors, specifically found within “Migrating to Intel® Architecture” section 4.1.
This TechOnline* online course provides an introduction to multi-core processors, including device selection, hardware models, programming and tools.
See, by example, multi- thread and core advantages — heightened performance, security and reliability in image processing, industrial sensor readings, aerospace and cryptographic applications.
Version: 1 : January 2011
To better understand how Intel® multi-core creates expansiveness and efficiency simultaneously, this brief summation defines advantages, identifies complexities, and cites industry use.
Version: 1 : January 2011
Learn how developers with the right tools, such as good symmetric multi-processing real-time operating systems, find multi-core application development and programming easier.
Version: 1 : January 2011
A template for identifying performance-optimization opportunities for multi-core performance benefits.
Version: 001 : January 2007
Based on real-world applications, these tips will help programmers migrating to multi-core systems avoid some of the pitfalls that can come with the new parallel paradigm.
Version: January 2009
With the emergence of multi-core processors for mainstream applications, parallel programming is becoming a technique every professional software developer should master.
Version: April 2007
This software package helps you develop, analyze, and optimize performance of parallel applications for clusters using Intel® 32- and 64-bit architectures.
Improves application performance on Intel® architecture-based clusters by implementing the high performance MPI-2 specification on multiple fabrics.
The Intel® Media SDK provides a single, unified solution for handling video encoding, preprocessing, decoding, and transcoding.
This BETA version of tool supports 2nd Generation of Intel® Core™ processors. This tool provides platform-level game performance analysis to help you optimize for system hardware.
Version: 3.1 : August 2010
The utility provides both a feedback mechanism and an interface to commonly used Power Conservation (PC) features. It helps validate and debug PC features.
The media check tool determines whether Protected Audio Video Path (PAVP) setup is correct on Intel® chipset. User guide is enclosed with the tool.
Discover the Intel® tools to develop, analyze, and optimize performance of multithreaded and parallel application for Windows* operating system.
Discover the Intel® tools to develop, analyze, and optimize performance of multithreaded and parallel application for Linux* operating system.
An open source collaboration project that provides templates, tools and methods to help you create custom Linux-based systems for embedded products.
The Tool Suite covers the entire software development cycle: coding, compiling, debugging, and analyzing performance for Intel® Atom™ processor-powered embedded and CE devices.
This document provides LEPD – Intel® Atom™ product line roadmap, relevant software strategies, operating systems supported, features and benefits, milestones and timelines.
Version: 001 : August 2011
Get an overview of the embedded software development tool suite that includes compiler, performance libraries, debuggers, and performance tuning tools for Intel® Atom™ processors.
Version: January 2012
Overview of Intel® Embedded Software Development tools, how to build, develop and tune software, and use Intel® Threading Building Blocks (TBB) library for parallel programming.
Version: 001 : July 2010
The Tool Suite covers the entire software development cycle: coding, compiling, debugging, and analyzing performance for Intel® Atom™ processor-powered embedded and CE devices.
The ECM-XDP3 In-Target Probe (JTAG emulator) is one of Arium's debug solutions supporting Intel® embedded (including Intel® Atom™), laptop, desktop, and server processors.
SourcePoint*, Arium's emulator software debug interface, supports Intel® XScale®, IA-32 and IA-64 platforms, for versatility, customization and enhanced visibility in code execution.
Using an Intel® Atom™ processor and Wind River OCD JTAG tools with Wind River Workbench*, see how tasks run on VxWorks*, hit breakpoints, and compile objects exposed to the debugger.
Version: 001 : June 2009
This tutorial product preview combines the Wind River Workbench and Ice 2 JTAG unit for Linux* debugging on the Intel® Atom™ platform, illustrating development cycle improvement.
Version: 001 : July 2009
This video-capture illustration shows how on-chip debugging with the JTAG interface allows access to the inner-workings of Intel® processors and chipsets, improving board development life.
Version: 001 : June 2009
Wind River Workbench* is a collection of tools that accelerates time-to-market for developers building devices with VxWorks* and Wind River Linux*.
Download Wind River's* JTAG register files for use with the Intel® Xeon®:, Atom™ and Core™ processors.
File Type/Size: application/x-zip 516KB
Version: 3.3.1 : July 2011
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