12th Generation Intel® Core™ Processors

Datasheet, Volume 1 of 2

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655258 05/25/2022 Public

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Terminology and Special Marks

Terminology

Term

Description

4K

Ultra High Definition (UHD)

AES

Advanced Encryption Standard

AGC

Adaptive Gain Control

API

Application Programming Interface

AVC

Advanced Video Coding

BLT

Block Level Transfer

BPP

Bits per Pixel

CDR

Clock and Data Recovery

CTLE

Continuous Time Linear Equalizer

DDC

Digital Display Channel (Refer to Intel ® 600 Series Chipset Family Platform Controller Hub Datasheet Volume 1 of 2 (#648364) for more details)

DDI

Digital Display Interface for DP or HDMI/DVI

DSI

Display Serial Interface

DDR4

Fourth-Generation Double Data Rate SDRAM Memory Technology

DDR5

Fifth-Generation Double Data Rate SDRAM Memory Technology

DPC DIMM per channel

DFE

Decision Feedback Equalizer

DMA

Direct Memory Access

DPPM

Dynamic Power Performance Management

DMI

Direct Media Interface

DP*

DisplayPort*

DSC

Display Stream Compression

DSI

Display Serial Interface

DTS

Digital Thermal Sensor

ECC

Error Correction Code - used to fix DDR transactions errors

eDP*

Embedded DisplayPort*

EU

Execution Unit in the Graphics Processor

FIVR

Fully Integrated Voltage Regulator

GSA

Graphics in System Agent

GNA

Gauss Newton Algorithm

HDCP

High-Bandwidth Digital Content Protection

HDMI*

High Definition Multimedia Interface

IMC

Integrated Memory Controller

Intel® 64 Technology

64-bit memory extensions to the IA-32 architecture

Intel® DPST

Intel® Display Power Saving Technology

Intel® PTT

Intel® Platform Trust Technology

Intel® TXT

Intel® Trusted Execution Technology

Intel® VT

Intel® Virtualization Technology. Processor Virtualization, when used in conjunction with Virtual Machine Monitor software, enables multiple, robust independent software environments inside a single platform.

Intel® VT-d

Intel® Virtualization Technology (Intel® VT) for Directed I/O. Intel® VT-d is a hardware assist, under system software (Virtual Machine Manager or OS) control, for enabling I/O device Virtualization. Intel® VT-d also brings robust security by providing protection from errant DMAs by using DMA remapping, a key feature of Intel® VT-d.

ITH

Intel® Trace Hub

IOV

I/O Virtualization

IPU

Image Processing Unit

LFM

Low Frequency Mode. corresponding to the Enhanced Intel SpeedStep® Technology’s lowest voltage/frequency pair. It can be read at MSR CEh [47:40].

LLC

Last Level Cache

LPDDR4x/5

Low Power Double Data Rate SDRAM memory technology /x- additional power save.

LPSP

Low-Power Single Pipe

LSF

Lowest Supported Frequency.This frequency is the lowest frequency where manufacturing confirms logical functionality under the set of operating conditions.

LTR

The Latency Tolerance Reporting (LTR) mechanism enables Endpoints to report their service latency requirements for Memory Reads and Writes to the Root Complex, so that power management policies for central platform resources (such as main memory, RC internal interconnects, and snoop resources) can be implemented to consider Endpoint service requirements.

MCP

Multi-Chip Package - includes the processor and the PCH. In some SKUs, it might have additional On-Package Cache.

MFM

Minimum Frequency Mode. MFM is the minimum ratio supported by the processor and can be read from MSR CEh [55:48].

MLC

Mid-Level Cache

MPEG

Motion Picture Expert Group, international standard body JTC1/SC29/WG11 under ISO/IEC that has defined audio and video compression standards such as MPEG-1, MPEG-2, and MPEG-4, etc.

NCTF

Non-Critical to Function. NCTF locations are typically redundant ground or non-critical reserved balls/lands, so the loss of the solder joint continuity at end of life conditions will not affect the overall product functionality.

PCH

Platform Controller Hub. The chipset with centralized platform capabilities including the main I/O interfaces along with display connectivity, audio features, power management, manageability, security, and storage features. The PCH may also be referred to as “chipset”.

PECI

Platform Environment Control Interface

PEG

PCI Express* Graphics

PL1, PL2, PL3

Power Limit 1, Power Limit 2, Power Limit 3

PMIC

Power Management Integrated Circuit

Processor

The 64-bit multi-core component (package)

Processor Core

The term “processor core” refers to the Si die itself, which can contain multiple execution cores. Each execution core has an instruction cache, data cache, and 256-KB L2 cache. All execution cores share the LLC.

Processor Graphics

Intel® Processor Graphics

PSR

Panel Self-Refresh

PSx

Power Save States (PS0, PS1, PS2, PS3, PS4)

Rank

A unit of DRAM corresponding to four to eight devices in parallel, ignoring ECC. These devices are usually, but not always, mounted on a single side of a SoDIMM.

SCI

System Control Interrupt. SCI is used in the ACPI protocol.

SDP

Scenario Design Power

SHA

Secure Hash Algorithm

SSC

Spread Spectrum Clock

Storage Conditions

Refer Package Storage Specifications.

STR

Suspend to RAM

TAC

Thermal Averaging Constant

TBT

Thunderbolt™ Interface

TCC

Thermal Control Circuit

Processor Base Power (a.k.a TDP)

Thermal Design Power

TTV Processor Base Power (a.k.a TDP)

Thermal Test Vehicle TDP

VCC

Processor Core Power Supply

VCCGT

Processor Graphics Power Supply

VCCSA

System Agent Power Supply

VLD

Variable Length Decoding

VPID

Virtual Processor ID

VSS

Processor Ground

D0ix-states

USB controller power states ranging from D0i0 to D0i3, where D0i0 is fully powered on and D0i3 is primarily powered off. Controlled by SW.

S0ix-states

Processor residency idle standby power states.

Special Marks 

Mark Definition

[]

Brackets ([]) sometimes follow a ball, pin, registers or a bit name. These brackets enclose a range of numbers, for example, TCP[2:0]_​TXRX_​P[1:0] may refer to four USB-C* pins or EAX[7:0] may indicate a range that is 8 bits length.

_​N / # / B

A suffix of _​N or # or B indicates an active low signal. For example, CATERR# _​N does not refer to a differential pair of signals such as CLK_​P, CLK_​N

0x000

Hexadecimal numbers are identified with an x in the number. All numbers are decimal (base 10) unless otherwise specified. Non-obvious binary numbers have the ‘b’ enclosed at the end of the number. For example, 0101b