Geode鈩?GX1 Processor Series Low Power Integrated x86 Solution
April 2000
Geode鈩?GX1 Processor Series
Low Power Integrated x86 Solution
General Description
The National Semiconductor
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Geode鈩?GX1 processor
series is a line of integrated processors specifically
designed to power information appliances for entertain-
ment, education, and business. Serving the needs of con-
sumers and business professionals alike, it鈥檚 the perfect
solution for IA (information appliance) applications such as
thin clients, interactive set-top boxes, and personal internet
access devices.
The Geode GX1 processor series is divided into three main
categories as defined by the core operating voltage. Avail-
able with core voltages of 2.0V, 1.8V, and 1.6V, it offers
extremely low typical power consumption (1.2W, 1.0W, and
0.8W, respectively) leading to longer battery life and
enabling small form-factor, fanless designs. Typical power
consumption is defined as an average, measured running
Microsoft Windows at 80% Active Idle (Suspend-on-Halt)
with a display resolution of 800x600x8 bpp at 75 Hz.
Geode鈩?GX1 Processor Internal Block Diagram
Clock Module
SYSCLK
SYSCLK
multiplied
by 鈥淎鈥?/div>
INTR
Core
Clocks
X-Bus
Clocks
x86 Compatible Core
INT/NMI
TLB
Integer
Unit
FP_Error
Interrupt
Control
IRQ13
SMI#
Scratchpad
16 KB
Unified L1
Cache
(128)
Instruction
Fetch
MMU
Load/Store
Floating Point
Unit
C-Bus (64)
SUSP#
Core Suspend
SUSPA#
Power
Management
Control
Core Acknowledge
X-Bus Suspend
X-Bus Acknowledge
X-Bus (32)
Arbiter
X-Bus
Controller
Write
Buffers
Read
Buffers
Arbiter
PCI Host
Controller
2D Accelerator
VGA
BLT Engine
ROP Unit
X-Bus CLK
divide by 鈥淏鈥?/div>
Display Controller
Compression Buffer
Palette RAM
Timing Generator
3
REQ/GNT
Pairs
PCI
Bus
4
SDRAM
Clocks
64-bit
SDRAM
RGB
YUV
Geode鈩?Graphics
Companion Interface
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