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Intel® Multi-Core Technology for Embedded and Communications Applications

Intel® multi-core technology offers scalable and energy-efficient performance in a smaller footprint enabled by the advanced parallel processing of next-generation hafnium-based 45nm technology. With multiple execution cores within a single chip, these processors can operate at the same power level as previous generation single-core processors.

Ideal for communications and embedded systems where performance-per-watt has become increasingly critical, each execution core in an Intel multi-core processor is clocked slower than a single-core processor resulting in lower input voltage and greater performance.

  • Improved performance per watt enabled by 45nm Hi-k next generation Intel® Core™ microarchitecture, delivering improved transistor switching speed and reduced transistor gate leakage.
  • Backwards compatibility with Intel® Architecture-based processors so you can continue to utilize the 32-bit applications of today while adopting 64-bit applications for the future.
  • Assign different tasks to each execution core, with each functioning as a distinct processor, allowing you to dedicate multiple applications and operating systems (OSs) to a single execution core, unencumbered by tasks that would otherwise compete for CPU resources.

Multi-core methodologies

Symmetric Multithreading (SMT) Symmetric Multiprocessing (SMP)

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Tools and support

  • Tools for multi-core
    Intel provides a set of software development products, training and support to help migrate to and speed optimization of multi-core designs.

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Resources

Multi-core fundamentals

White papers

  • Optimizing software for multi-core processors

    File Type/Size:  PDF 362KB


    This code migration study shows the possibility of taking an application designed to run on a single-core processor and migrate it to a four-core system, increasing the performance.
  • Optimizing embedded system performance

    File Type/Size:  PDF 487KB


    Embedded system developers may find added performance for particular workloads when hardware and software data prefetching is finely tuned.
  • Supra-linear packet processing performance
    This paper describes the use of multiple processing cores for communications applications and illustrates the performance results of pipelining and flow-pinning in a packet-processing application.
  • Intel® products increase IMS performance
    Intel’s third-generation Intel NetStructure® MPCBL0040 Single Board Computer using new multi-core technology provided a 2.8X performance improvement¹ over its first generation Intel NetStructure Single Board Computer and provides an ideal platform for IMS infrastructure deployment.
  • Accelerating security applications with Intel® multi-core processors
    Intel demonstrated performance improvements on an intrusion detection and prevention security application running on four processor cores and without threading the application.

Related information

  • Riding the next wave of embedded multi-core processors
    High-performance, low-power military systems are moving to small form-factor design platforms based on multi-core processors and symmetric multi-processing architectures.
  • Intel® Xeon® processor 5000 sequence
    Intel® Xeon® processor-based systems provide breakthrough performance, energy efficiency, extended lifecycle support for compute-intensive and embedded communications applications.
  • Intel® Core™2 Duo processors
    Ideal for embedded computing, the Intel® Core™2 Duo processor delivers the exceptional performance-per-watt to meet the needs of embedded platforms.
  • Intel® Xeon® processors LV and ULV
    Embedded systems with the Intel® Xeon® processor LV and ULV combines the benefits of two high-performance execution cores delivering significantly greater performance-per-watt over previous single-core Intel Xeon processors.
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¹ Intel NetStructure® MPCBL0040 Single Board Computer Powered by Intel® Xeon® processors LV 2.0 GHz Shows 2.8X Improvement in SIP Performance for IMS
http://developer.intel.com/design/telecom/papers/9936.htm