User`s manual

Functional Description 11
AMC-1000
3 Functional Description
The following sections describe the AMC-1000 main functions and
board interfaces.
3.1 CPU
Intel® Core™2 Duo
The AMC-1000 supports the latest Intel® Intel® Core™2 Duo pro-
cessor family up to speeds of 1.5 GHz with up to 667 MHz FSB.
The Intel® Core™ Duo consists of two cores and up to 2 MB L2
cache shared by both cores. The Intel® Core™2 Duo consists of
two cores, up to 4 MB L2 cache shared by both cores and Intel
Extended Memory 64 Technology (Intel EM64T). The Intel®
Core™2 Duo processors deliver optimized power-efficient com-
puting and outstanding dual-core performance with low power
consumption.
The Intel® Core™2 Duo supports the latest Intel’s Virtualization
Technology (VT), which allows a platform to run multiple operating
systems and applications in independent partitions, such as per-
forming system upgrades and maintenance without interrupting
the system or the application, keeping software loads and virus
attacks separate, combining multiple servers in one system, etc.
With processor and I/O enhancements to Intel’s various platforms,
Intel Virtualization Technology improves the performance and
robustness of today’s software-only virtual machine solutions.
Furthermore, the Intel® Core™2 Duo also supports Intel Speed-
Step technology which enables real-time dynamic switching of the
voltage and frequency between several modes. This is achieved
by switching the bus ratios, core operating voltage, and core pro-
cessor speeds without resetting the system.
The following list sets out some of the key features of the Intel®
Core™2 Duo processors:
X Two mobile execution cores in one single processor
X Support of Intel’s Virtualization Technology (Vanderpool)
X Support of Intel Architecture with Dynamic Execution