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Intel powers an ArduinoIntel powers an ArduinoPosted Oct 6, 2013 17:03 UTC (Sun) by marcH (subscriber, #57642)In reply to: Intel powers an Arduino by drag Parent article: Intel powers an Arduino for the first time with new “Galileo” board (ars technica)
> Normally this is not a big deal because the logic required to do the translation was much smaller then the rest of the processor, however as Intel tries to simplify their processors and scale them down they can't get away from the huge ISA translation layer.
In SoCs like Quark, the *entire* CPU core is small compared to the rest of the SoC anyway.
I suspect power is a different question than you think it is.
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Intel powers an Arduino Posted Oct 6, 2013 17:39 UTC (Sun) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link] In SoCs like Quark, the *entire* CPU core is small compared to the rest of the SoC anyway. That's true for most SoCs, but I doubt it's true for Quark. Quark is billed as ⅕ of Atom. Atom has about 50 million transistors thus Quark should have about 10 million. If you'll recall that even original Pentium had 3.1 million and also consider the fact that Quark is supposed to be synthesizable we should expect between 3 and 5 million transistors just for that single core. That's hardly small compared to the rest of the SoC anyway. P.S. Of course Intel could have used 80486 core which only had ~1.2 million transistors but in that case it's 400MHz will deliver pretty pitiful performance by today's standards thus I hope it's at least Pentium-class CPU. And even in that case it'll be ⅒ of the whole SoC!
Intel powers an Arduino Posted Oct 7, 2013 5:36 UTC (Mon) by nhippi (subscriber, #34640) [Link]
From the Quark Developers manual, quark is clearly a 486 core. Even if the manual is quite clear not spell it out loud, all the instruction timings match with the 486 counts...
This is the first rasberry pi killer that is actually slower than rasberry pi.
Intel powers an Arduino Posted Oct 7, 2013 6:31 UTC (Mon) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link]
They can clock 486 to much higher frequency.
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