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Original 45nm Intel® Core™ Microarchitecture
Power Improvements on 2008 Desktop Platforms
Authors’ Biographies
Paul Zagacki
is a Principal Engineer in the Client Platform Architecture and Planning Group within the Digital Enterprise Group at Intel. Paul holds a B.S. degree in Computer Science from the University of Michigan. He joined Intel in 1994 and has worked on performance modeling for microprocessor architectures, software and benchmark analysis and optimization, design convergence, and desktop component and platform power optimization. Paul has four issued patents. His e-mail is paul.zagacki at intel.com.
Vidoot R. Ponnala
received his B.Tech degree in Electrical Engineering from CVR College of Engineering, Hyderabad, India and his Masters degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He joined Intel as a system architect intern in Intel's Mobility Group in 2006 and currently is a Platform Power Architect in Intel's Digital Enterprise Group. Since joining this group in 2008 he has been responsible for platform power and performance analysis for client systems. His current interests include processor and systems architecture. His email is vidoot. r.ponnala at intel.com.
In this article
- Abstract
- Introduction
- Architecture
- Desktop Power Instrumented Reference Platform
- Intel® Core™2 Quad Processor Family
- Voltage Regulator Down 11.1—Power Status Indicator (PSI#)
- Intel® Q45 Express Chipset
- Results
- USB Impact on Platform Power and C-State Residency
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgements
- References
- Authors’ Biographies
