Software Development for Embedded Multi-core Systems

Chapter 10. Getting Ready for Low Power Intel Architecture

Key Points

• The introduction of new Intel Architecture processors designed for low power enable a new class of Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs).

• Battery Life Toolkit (BLTK) helps characterize power utilization of different design decisions.

• Embedded debugging requires special-purpose equipment and features to aid phases of development, spanning hardware platform bringup, OS and device driver debugging, and application debugging.

Intel Architecture processors are suitable for a wide range of embedded applications spanning high performance server class products to low power mobile products. The low power capabilities of Intel Architecture processors targeting the notebook market segments reach ...