
AMD EMBEDDED SOLUTIONS GUIDE
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JULY 2013
can contribute to greater design and cost
efficiencies. e reduction of the two-chip
APU platform architecture to a single chip
streamlines design cycles and can help
lower BOM costs with a potential to reduce
board layers and simplify power supply de-
sign. e low power attributes of the AMD
G-Series SOC can also enable fan-less de-
signs, further driving down system costs,
helping reduce system noise, and boosting
system reliability by eliminating the failure
points inherent to moving parts.
Offering an array of dual and quad-core
performance options and SKUs spanning
from 9W to 25W with uniform pin compat-
ibility across the product family, the AMD
G-Series SOC platform allows OEMs to
utilize a single board design to enable solu-
tion scalability from entry level to high end
product offerings. is ‘common platform’
design approach may simplify OEMs’ prod-
uct development business on both the sup-
ply and the production sides, which could
result in significant cost savings.
e AMD G-Series SOCs’ platform
design makes possible new levels of perfor-
mance in small SBC and COMs form fac-
tors, enabled in part by the reduction in
board layers via the single-chip SOC archi-
tecture. is helps designers to more easily
and cost-effectively implement the AMD
G-Series SOC platform into innovative,
small form factor designs such as Pico-ITX,
Qseven, PCIe/104, ETX and COM Express.
Additionally, the I/O controller integrated
within AMD G-Series SOCs offers expan-
sion capabilities to address a wide range of
market needs, supporting PCIe®, SATA and
other mainstream I/O interfaces.
x86 Agility and Enterprise-
Class Error-Correction Code
Traditionally, ECC support has been
limited to power-hungry processor plat-
forms, however, the evolution of a new class
of ultra energy-efficient, compute-intensive
x86 IT infrastructure and precision control
systems makes ECC an increasingly impor-
tant requirement. e ability of the AMD
G-Series SOC platform to support enter-
prise-class ECC memory distinguishes it
as an excellent fit for applications requiring
high levels of data integrity without com-
promising energy efficiency.
e rich ecosystem of industry-stan-
dard, x86-optimized software, applica-
tions, operating systems and development
environments readily available to embed-
ded designers contributes to a low total cost
of ownership, multi-generation product
longevity and greater investment protec-
tion for systems based on AMD G-Series
SOCs. Providing x86 computing agility
with enterprise-class features like ECC,
AMD G-Series SOCs help provide tight
integration with enterprise IT networks,
Internet backbone infrastructure and x86-
based distributed control systems, which
introduces additional benefits for the myr-
iad applications hosted on these networks.
Designed for High
Performance at Low Power
AMD Embedded G-Series SOCs
build on the strength of the AMD G-Series
APU architecture to provide an array of
performance and power options and en-
hanced multimedia capabilities via a single
scalable architecture – in 33% less space as
compared to the AMD G-Series two chip
platform
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. is improvement is made pos-
sible by the seamless single chip integration
of CPU, GPU and I/O controller. Deliv-
ering up to a 113% performance improve-
ment compared to AMD G-Series APUs
when running multiple industry-standard
compute-intensive benchmark
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, with ECC
support and available dual and quad-core
configurations, AMD Embedded G-Se-
ries SOCs liberate embedded designers to
achieve new levels of system performance
and HD multimedia versatility in ultra
compact form factors.
For more information about AMD
Embedded G-Series SOCs visit www.amd.
com/g-series
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