Application Brief Reliability, Integration and Excellent Performance per Watt: Key Features for Industrial PC Designs The latest generation of high tech industrial control and automation systems are delivering excellent usability and performance to enable plant operators to push past previous limits in manufacturing processes, operations and equipment. New technologies are influencing the evolution of factories. An emerging trend is the integration of product development, logistics and manufacturing, enabled through the fast flow of materials, products and information, to create highly complex and efficient worldwide manufacturing operations. AMD Embedded Solutions feature a variety of attributes for industrial PC applications AMD Solutions for Industrial PC Applications • Range of price, power and performance APU and SOC solutions offered for scalable industrial PC, PLC, and PAC designs - Support for hardware virtualization, remote management and exceptional graphics across APU and SoC product lines - Same features and functions in a variety of form factors and price points - Ability to leverage same board design into products from small form factor to high-performance - Support for multiple product categories with a single software architecture The breadth of processing solutions from AMD can deliver excellent performance per watt along with features to support in-factory integration and reliability. AMD’s solutions are targeted at low power PLCs (Programmable Logic Controllers) or PACs (Programmable Automation Controllers) – compact industrial box PCs and high performance integrated PC solutions. For low power designs, the processors in the AMD Embedded G-Series SOC (System-onChip) family are built around an optimized power efficient core that delivers good CPU and graphics performance in a compact ball grid array (BGA) package. For high performance applications that require the integration of functions or high performance, the AMD Embedded R-Series APUs (Accelerated Processing Units) deliver excellent CPU and graphics performance in a solution that is still power efficient. While traditional benefits of these solutions include long term availability and low power consumption, applications built around the AMD G-Series SOCs and R-Series APUs also offer integration and reliability features that can broadly scale across Industrial Control and Automation solutions. • PC-compatible solutions backed by an ecosystem of software and tools help deliver a complete solution, easily integrate with enterprise networks, and shorten design cycles - Broad ecosystem support to help simplify development - Support for Microsoft Windows®, Linux® and real-time operating systems (RTOS) - Easy networking with IP-based industrial and enterprise networks • Excellent performance on highly integrated and low-power APU and SOC solutions help simplify design into small form factor and fan-less applications - Excellent graphics performance per watt with integrated AMD Radeon™ graphics - Low power and high integration well suited for small form factor PLC, PAC and Industrial PC designs - Compact and low power SoC solutions that are easy to design into small form factor and fan-less designs • OpenCL™ delivers very high compute performance on the GPU - From 46 to 563 SP GFLOPS1, 2 compute performance - For applications such as machine vision, test and measurement and motion control - Royalty-free open standard • Highly integrated and reliable designs enabled through support for hardware virtualization and remote management across families - Increased system reliability and reduced downtime - AMD Virtualization™ (AMD-V™) support in hardware that enables the combination of an RTOS for process or machine control and Microsoft Windows® for a full-featured GUI - AMD DAS 1.0 with out-of-band remote management solution support, to remotely manage devices even when the OS is not running Application Brief: Industrial PC Applications FOR PAC/PLCs OR LOW POWER/ COST BOX PCs FOR SCALABLE INDUSTRIAL PCS FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE BOX PC OR BLADE COMPUTER • Recommended: AMD G-Series SOC Family - Excellent performance with balanced power - Dual and Quad-core Scalability - 3.3W-10.8W Average Power4 • Recommended: AMD GX-210HA SOC - Low-power at only 4.1W average power3 - Highly Integrated SOC - Good performance dual-core x86 - Lower power and cost Alternative: AMD G-T16R APU • Recommended: AMD R-464L APU - Excellent graphics performance - High x86 performance - Up to 563 SP GFLOPS1 compute - L ower power and cost alternative: AMD GX-420CA SOC Programmable Automation Controller (PAC) or PLC CPU 3 (opt) DVI/HDMI™/DP (Opt) CPU 2 (opt) PCIe®/Display Direct® 11 GPU Memory ECC (Opt) 4x1 and 1x4 PCIe (2nd Gen) CPU 1 Boot Flash AMD Embedded G-Series SOC CPU 0 SATA v3.x SD Card or eMMC 12-48VDC GbE GbE HD Audio PCIe® IR USB 2.0/3.0 LPC, SPI 802.15.4 or WiFi IEEE 1588 EEE 1588 USB 2.0/3.0 (2nd Gen) PCI SMBus (12C) RS-232 UART RS-485 DAS 1.0 Remote Management For more information, or to discuss which AMD-based solution might be right for you, please contact your local AMD Embedded Solutions sales representative: www.amd.com/embeddedsales or see www.amd.com/industrial 1 Calculated SP GFLOPs = (# of x86 cores x (128 bit (FPUs) / 32 bit (SP Operation)) * CPU Base Frequency) + (# of shader units * (64 bit (shader) / 32 bit (SP Operation)) * GPU Max Frequency). EMB-21 2 The calculated single precision GFLOPs for the AMD G-T16R is 46 and for the Intel Atom D2700 is 8.52. Calculated SP GFLOPs = (# of x86 cores x (# of FP bits per core / 32 bit (SP Operation)) * CPU Frequency) + (# of OpenCL enabled GPU cores * (# of FP bits per GPU core / 32 bit (SP Operation)) * GPU Frequency). EMB-31 3 The average power for the AMD GX-210HA SOC is 4.1 Watts, determined by averaging the results of the measured average power of the SOC running the following benchmarks; 3DMark® 11, AMD Sys Stress Test CPU, AMD Sys Stress Test CPU & GPU, AMD Sys Stress Test GPU, Winbench® 99, CoreMark, Game:Meat Boy, PCMark® 7, POV-Ray, Sandra 2011, Game: Street Fighter,. Testing was performed on an AMD E1-2100 (Rev A1) that is equivalent to the AMD GX-210HA SOC. System configuration: AMD E1-2100 @ 70°C, “Larne" development platform, 4GB RAM, Windows 7 Ultimate. Please see AMD Publication ID 53395A for more information. 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