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The fully compatible Intel® EP80579 Integrated Processor product line delivers excellent performance/watt for small form factor designs. These breakthrough system-on-a-chip (SOC) processors provide excellent solutions for small-to-medium business (SMB) and enterprise security and communications appliances (including VPN/firewall and UTM), converged access platforms, IP media servers and VoIP gateways, as well as retail and transaction, print and imaging, wireless and WiMax access, SMB and home network attached storage, converged IP PBX, and industrial automation applications.
The Intel EP80579 Integrated Processor offers flexible integrated I/O support with three Ethernet MACs, two controller area network interfaces and a local expansion bus interface. Additionally, the integrated processor with Intel® QuickAssist Technology provides high speed serial (HSS) ports for TDM or analog voice connectivity, security accelerators for bulk encryption, hashing and public/private key generation.
Product brief for the Intel® EP80579 Integrated Processor.
Version: 003 : February 2009
¹ Requires Intel-supplied software for Intel® EP80579 Integrated Processor product line.
² Thermal design power (TDP) specification should be used to design processor thermal solutions. TDP is not the maximum theoretical power the processor can generate.
Guidance to perform thermal designs on the Intel® EP80579 Integrated Processor.
File Type/Size: PDF 97KB
Version: 1.0 : June 2007
Application Note: DDR2 x16 Hardware Implementation Utilizing the Intel® EP80579 Integrated Processor Product Line
Version: 002 : September 2008
This document provides a context for using the features for manufacturability and debug implemented on Intel® processors and chipsets.
Version: 001 : October 2007
Application Note: Ethernet PHY Selection Criteria for the Intel® EP80579 Integrated Processor Product Line
Version: 004 : September 2009
Application Note: Installing Accelerated OpenSSL (OCF) and Apache* on Linux*—For Use with Intel® EP80579 Software for Security Applications on Intel® QuickAssist Technology
Version: 001 : September 2008
Application Note: Intel® EP80579 Software for IP Telephony Applications on Intel® QuickAssist Technology for Linux* SRTP Acceleration Driver
Version: 002 : November 2008
The purpose of this application note is to provide guidance for power sequence and reset to meet the required sequence and timing as specified in the datasheet.
Version: 001 : December 2008
Application Note: Techniques for Lowering Power Consumption in Designs Utilizing the Intel® EP80579 Integrated Processor Product Line
Version: 002 : May 2009
The Intel® EP80579 Integrated Processor has multiple interfaces including the local expansion bus (LEB).
Version: 004 : May 2009
Application Note: Utilizing CAN with Intel® EP80579 Integrated Processor Product Line
Version: 001 : August 2008
Description of the methodology for connecting compactflash* to the Intel® EP80579 Integrated Processor.
Application Note: Utilizing IEEE1588 with Intel® EP80579 Integrated Processor Product Line
Application Note: Wake on LAN Hardware Implementation Utilizing the Intel® EP80579 Integrated Processor Product Line
An increase in the speed and frequency of a design combined with a need to reduce cost has created a challenge in defining an acceptable stack-up to meet the needs of high-speed designs.
Version: December 2008
Off-the-shelf building blocks accelerate security gateway development: Intel® EP80579 Integrated Processor with Intel® QuickAssist Technology and Intoto iGateway MSG SecureSME*.
Version: 001
This paper discusses the software methods used to access PCI Express* registers, including the formula used to calculate the memory locations needed to access a specific register.
This paper examines storage solutions, from USB flash drives to high capacity disk drives, and discusses the trade-offs in finding the right solutions for an embedded application.
DDR is one of the challenging interfaces for a signal integrity engineer. This paper outlines an approach to divide the task, with an example for each step from the DDR2 interface.
Version: January 2009
Here are recommendations for engineers who are designing embedded systems with the minimum number of power rails, including power and reset sequencing for standby and main rails.
This paper provides insights on how high speed signals behave on a board, the role played by inductors, resistors and capacitors and available design tools.
Since memory latency is an important factor of overall performance, it is important to know what tool to use in order to gather this information.
This paper describes how the Intel® EP80579 Integrated Processor with Intel® QuickAssist Technology is an excellent fit for unified threat management appliances.
Version: 002 : February 2009
Learn how to integrate a Linux* user space voice application with the TDM infrastructure of the Intel® EP80579 Integrated Processor with Intel® QuickAssist Technology.
Version: 001 : July 2008
I²C bus protocols can differ slightly from Intel® Controller Hub (ICH) SMBus protocols.This paper provides a full description of the details of each SMBus cycle supported by the ICH.
This paper describes the IP telephony components integrated in the System-on-a-Chip and provide details of the driver software architecture for acceleration functions.
File Type/Size: PDF 574KB
Information on the NEXUS automotive JTAG, the Intel XDP and ITP and available debuggers.
This paper explains how developers can take full advantage of the integration and performance of Intel system-on-a-chip processors to deliver unique, compelling storage solutions.
MSI delivery and servicing removes the two big limitations associated with Intel® architecture, the limited number of interrupts and unnecessarily high interrupt latencies.
Solve the challenges of implementing the ACPI compliant sleep states in an Atom™US15W SCH based platform.
File Type/Size: PDF 268KB
Intel delivers platform design guidelines with validated platforms. This document details the signal integrity impacts from every deviation and describes solutions to overcome them.
The Intel® EP80579 Integrated Processor is an Intel architecture based system-on-a-chip (SoC) specifically designed to meet the requirements of embedded applications.
This application note describes the cryptographic acceleration components integrated in the Intel® EP80579 Integrated Processor and their interface with Intel® architecture.
File Type/Size: PDF 571KB
This case study uses data from a real-world system-on-a-chip (SoC) performance comparison to evaluate SoCs that could serve as the core of a next generation suite of MSBG products.
Ensuring sufficient hardware level I/O capabilities for embedded designs is critical. This paper outlines the PCIe hardware level benchmarking used by Intel to collect I/O performance data.
L3 forwarding measures the Intel® architecture core capability in processing IP packets without any loss. This paper explains L3 forwarding measurement and optimization techniques.
The Intel® EP80579 Integrated Processor Product Line Datasheet provides technical design information for hardware/software/design engineers.
Version: 003 : August 2009
Specification update for the Intel® EP80579 Integrated Processor product line.
Version: 008 : September 2009
Development kit specification update for the Intel® EP80579 Integrated Processor with Intel® QuickAssist Technology
File Type/Size: PDF 102KB
Version: 001 : October 2008
The addendum contains information supporting the implementation of an Intel® architecture system-on-a-chip based embedded design.
Version: 004 : June 2009
Customer readiness test plan (CRTP) assists board manufacturers in testing and validating their platforms to ensure their boards are robust in some key areas of design, prior to production.
Get your software up and running using boards and development kits from Intel and third-party vendors.
The pre-boot firmware image is provided to re-install or update the firmware on the EP80579 Development Board.
Version: TRXTG064 : September 2009
VirtuaLab* is a Web-based tool that is available for selected Intel® architecture platforms. Use it to access real hardware and software tools, run code and benchmark across platforms.
Purchase Intel® embedded products from Intel® Authorized Industrial Distributors.
If you already have an account set up with Intel, contact your CBA for order placement. If you are not currently set up with Intel, visit the “Where to Buy” section of the EDC.
The getting started guide documents the instructions to obtain, build, install and execute the software release packages for the Intel® EP80579 Integrated Processor product line.
Version: 002 : October 2008
The document contains a description of the development kit, technical reference, configuration and setup information.
This getting started guide documents the instructions to obtain, build, install and execute the software release package for the FreeBSD* OS.
This getting started guide documents the instructions to obtain, build, install and execute the software release package for the Linux* OS.
Version: 003 : November 2008
This getting started guide documents the instructions to obtain, build, install and execute the software release package for the Windows XP Embedded* OS.
This getting started guide provides the instructions to obtain, build, install and execute Intel® EP80579 Software for IP Telephony on Intel® QuickAssist Technology release package.
Version: 002 : December 2008
The instructions to obtain, build, install, and execute Intel® EP80579 Software for Security Applications on Intel® QuickAssist Technology release package.
Version: 003 : September 2009
This getting started guide documents how to obtain, build, install and execute the Intel® EP80579 Software for Security Applications on Intel® QuickAssist Technology for Linux.
Learn about the features of the Intel® EP80579 Integrated Processor product line.
File Type/Size: PDF 35,822KB
This video shows a complete Intel® architecture system-on-a-chip (CPU + MCH + ICH + accelerators) with excellent performance-per-watt for security, communications, storage and embedded applications. Duration: 3:05.
Product brief for the Intel® EP80579 Integrated Processor with Intel® QuickAssist Technology.
Product brief for the Intel® EP80579 Integrated Processor with Intel® QuickAssist Technology development kit.
Software drivers needed to utilize hardware features on the Intel® EP80579 Integrated Processor.
Version: 004 : February 2009
The Intel® EP80579 Software for IP Telephony Applications on Intel® QuickAssist Technology package enables acceleration of cryptography and TDM processing.
The Intel® EP80579 Software for security applications on Intel® QuickAssist Technology package enables acceleration of cryptographic and packet processing.
Boundary Scan Description Language (BSDL) for the Intel® EP80579 Integrated Processor Product Line.
File Type/Size: application/zip 29KB
Version: 1.0
Cadence™ Allegro Board File for the Intel® EP80579 Integrated Processor with Intel® QuickAssist Technology Development Board
Version: June 2008
Cadence™ Allegro Board File for the Intel® EPAVM80579 Analog Voice mezzanine card (4-port analog voice card)
Cadence™ Allegro Board File for the Intel® EPTEM80579 T1/E1 mezzanine card (quad T1/E1 card)
Cadence™ Concept Symbol for the Intel® EP80579 Integrated Processor Product Line
Version: July 2009
Cadence™ OrCAD Symbol for the Intel® EP80579 Integrated Processor Product Line
Version: August 2009
Customer model for the Intel® EP80579 Integrated Processor product line.
Version: September 2006
Schematics and bill of material for the Intel® EP80579 Integrated Processor with Intel® QuickAssist Technology Development Board
Schematics and bill of material for the Intel® EPAVM80579 Analog Voice mezzanine card (4-port analog voice card)
Schematics and bill of material for the Intel® EPTEM80579 T1/E1 mezzanine card (quad T1/E1 card)
The Intel® EP80579 Integrated Processor with Intel® QuickAssist Technology is designed for converged IP PBX solutions, access platforms, IP media servers and multi-service gateways.
The Intel® EP80579 Integrated Processor with Intel® QuickAssist Technology is a system-on-a-chip (SoC) solution that can dramatically lower system cost.
The Intel® EP80579 Integrated Processor with Intel® QuickAssist Technology combines security acceleration, computing performance and power efficiency.
Fanless thermal/mechanical design guide for the Intel® EP80579 Integrated Processor product line.
Thermal/mechanical design guide for the Intel® EP80579 Integrated Processor product line.
Software for measuring the power/thermal characteristics of the Intel® EP80579 Integrated Processor.
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Version: 1.1 : August 2008
Use Flotherm* simulation software to model the thermal characteristics of the Intel® EP80579 Integrated Processor.
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Use Icepak* simulation software to model the thermal characteristics of the Intel® EP80579 Integrated Processor.
File Type/Size: ZIP 109KB
Intel's power profiling kit can accurately measure a platform's total AC, DC and component level power consumption while running standard applications or benchmarks.
Learn how to use the Thermal Test Vehicle to test prototype thermal solutions.
File Type/Size: PDF 129KB
Version: 001 : June 2007
This document defines thermal cooling: passive, active and fanless thermal solutions and their difference via the three modes of heat transfer—conduction, convection and radiation.
Intel® Embedded Graphics Drivers (IEGD) are a suite of multi-platform graphics drivers designed to meet the requirements of embedded applications.
Intel provides development drivers for Intel® Integrated Graphics to the open source community.
Version: November 2008
Read and accept the software agreement to download source code from N.A. Software. AltiVec* SIMD macros translator software is provided ‘as is.' Intel does not provide support. Please contact N.A. Software for support.
This paper explores technical issues around building, debugging and deploying embedded firmware on an Intel® architecture system.
Presentation introduces N.A. Software AltiVec* SIMD macros translator software. Software is provided ‘as is.’ Intel does not provide support.
File Type/Size: PDF 865KB
Version: April 2009
Information and demos on the Intel® Compiler, Intel® VTune™ Performance Analyzer, Intel® Thread Checker and Intel® Thread Profiler.
AMIBIOS8* is a well supported and stable BIOS product adopted by all computing market segments.
AMI* Aptio provides a firmware solution based on EFI, UEFI and Intel® Platform Innovation Framework for EFI specifications.
American Megatrends* offers a hardware diagnostic solution for the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI).
The utility allows manufacturing programming of EEPROMs, in cases where EEPROM is not preprogrammed, or programmed at in-circuit test.
Version: 1.0 : June 2008
Version: 1.2 : July 2008
Version: 1.1 : July 2008
Intel® EP80579 software drivers for embedded applications on CentOS* Linux* 5.2.
Version: Embedded.L.1.0.3 : September 2009
This download site contains the EP80579 software drivers for embedded applications on FreeBSD*.
Version: Embedded.B.1.0.3 : September 2009
This download site contains the EP80579 software drivers for embedded applications on Windows* XP Embedded.
Version: Embedded.X.1.0.3 : September 2009
This download site contains the EP80579 software drivers for IP Telephony applications on Intel® QuickAssist Technology on Linux.
Version: Telephony.L.1.0.1 : March 2009
This archive contains the HSS Channel Driver for Asterisk* for use with Intel® EP80579 Software for IP Telephony Applications package.
Version: Telephony.L.1.0 : September 2008
This download site contains the EP80579 software drivers for security applications on Intel® QuickAssist Technology on Linux.
Version: Security.L.1.0.3 : September 2009
Intel® EP80579 software drivers for security applications on Intel® QuickAssist Technology on Linux*.
Version: Security.B.1.0.3 : September 2009
This paper explains how I/O address aliasing works with respect to these registers for all ICH modes and provides exact programming instructions and sample code.
This document describes the architecture and interfaces for the Intel® EP80579 software drivers for embedded applications.
Version: 004 : July 2009
This document describes extensions to the release functionality described in Intel® EP80579 Software Drivers for Embedded Applications Programmer's Guide and API Reference Manual.
Version: 012 : September 2009
This document is a reference manual for the Intel® QuickAssist Technology IP Telephony API.
Version: 1.2 Revision-002 : November 2008
This paper describes the time-constrained application (using a voice application as an example) on a non-real-time OS (RHLE5) on the Intel® EP80579 Integrated Processor.
This document provides an overview of the silicon, software architecture and using the API to build an accelerated telephony application.
Version: 003 : May 2009
This document describes extensions to the release functionality described in Intel® EP80579 Software for IP Telephony Applications on Intel® QuickAssist Technology Programmer's Guide.
Version: 008 : June 2009
This document is a reference manual for the Intel® QuickAssist Technology TDM I/O Access API.
This document is a reference manual for the Intel® QuickAssist Technology Cryptographic API.
This document provides an overview of the silicon, software architecture and using the API to build an accelerated security appliance.
Version: 004 : August 2009
Extensions to the release functionality described in Intel® EP80579 Software for Security Applications on Intel® QuickAssist Technology Programmer's Guide.
This is a reference manual for the Intel® QuickAssist Technology Debug Services API.
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Guidelines for porting software to the Intel® EP80579 Integrated Processor product line.
Version: 003 : June 2009
This document is intended for developers who need to support other PHYs on Linux.
Version: 007 : September 2009
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