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Developer Updates from 12/01/2012 to 12/31/2012
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The AMD Embedded Developer Support Site is continuously updated to provide you with the most current technical data, software, and support information that you need to leverage the power of AMD Embedded Solutions for your designs. Recent technical collateral new and/or updates from December 1 through December 31, 2012 are listed below.
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Technical COLLATERAL
APUs/Controller Hubs
AMD Embedded R-Series Platform
AMD Embedded R-Series APU Display Configurations
Revision: 53060_1.00
Issue Date: 12/11/2012
Release Notes: Initial Release - The AMD Embedded R-Series APU (Accelerated Processing Unit) supports up to four independent display heads, but has only three dedicated outputs. The fourth display can be enabled either through MultiStream Transport (MST) technology in DisplayPort 1.2 that can transmit multiple display streams on a given output, or by allocating a portion of the PCIe® GFX lanes for a fourth output. This document describes the basic methods supported.
AMD FP2 Infrastructure Roadmap
Revision: 49453_1.03
Issue Date: 12/07/2012
Release Notes: This is revision 1.03 of this document. The changes from revision 1.02 (dated August 2012) are: Updated definitions to include Configurable TDP on page 8. Added cTDP to Thermal Requirements in Table 3 on page 12. Added clarifying note 8 for Maximum EDC duration in Table 4 on page 13. Added section 4.3 AC Adaptor Power Requirements on page 16.
AMD FP2 Processor Functional Data Sheet
Revision: 48589_1.06
Issue Date: 12/10/2012
Release Notes: This is revision 1.06 of this document. The change from revision 1.05 (also dated December 2012) is Figure 6 "Organic Micro Ball Grid Array: Top, Side and Bottom Views (Lidless) with TN2/RL2 Attached" on page 26 was added.
Thermal Design Guide for AMD FP2 Processors
Revision: 48926_1.02
Issue Date: 12/17/2012
Release Notes: This is revision 1.02 of this document. The change from revision 1.01 (also dated December 2012) is the names for figures 1 and 2 were corrected to match FDS.
AMD A55/A60M/A68/A68M/A70M/A75/A85X Register Programming Requirements
Revision: 47519_2.09
Issue Date: 12/07/2012
Release Notes: This is revision 2.09 of this document. The change from revision 2.08 (dated July 2012) is Section 2.19 “Set RTC OSC Output Drive” was added.
AMD A55/A60M/A68/A68M/A70M/A75/A85X Motherboard Layout Review Checklist
Revision: 47895_1.80
Issue Date: 12/12/2012
Release Notes: This is revision 1.80 of this document. The changes from revision 1.70 (dated August 2012) include edits to several sections. See the “Detailed Change List” for specifics.
AMD Embedded APU Solutions Guide
Revision: Dec 2012
Issue Date: 12/14/2012
Release Notes: Initial Release - Explains AMD partner offerings using AMD Embedded APUs.
Getting Started with SequenceL
Revision: 52860A
Issue Date: 12/12/2012
Release Notes: Initial Release - Optimizing parallel processing performance and coding efficiency with AMD APUs and Texas Multicore Technologies’ SequenceL Auto-parallelizing Programming Solution.
AMD Graphics Technology High-level Overview
Revision: 1.1
Issue Date: 12/17/2012
Release Notes: The changes from revision 1.0 (dated November 2012) are non-technical. See the “Revision History” for details.
Processors/Chipsets
AMD Opteron™ 6300/6200 and 4300/4200 Series Embedded Processors
AMD Family 15h Models 10h–1Fh Engineering Sample Processor Information
Revision: 48934_1.19
Issue Date: 12/10/2012
Release Notes: This is revision 1.19 of this document. The change to revision 1.18 (dated April 2012) is new OPN ZM299077E23HL was added.
AMD Family 15h Models 10h-1Fh Processor Power and Thermal Data Sheet
Revision: 48935_1.17
Issue Date: 12/03/2012
Release Notes: This is revision 1.17 of this document. The change from revision 1.16 (dated October 2012) is new OPNs were added to the AMD A-Series Processor section and the CTP and APP tables were also updated.
BIOS and Kernel Developer’s Guide (BKDG) for AMD Family 15h Models 10h-1Fh Processors
Revision: 42300_3.09
Issue Date: 12/13/2012
Release Notes: This is revision 3.09 of this document. The updates to revision 3.05 (dated September 2012) include edits to several sections. See the “Revision History” for details.
Discrete Graphics
AMD Radeon™ HD 7970M, E6760, E6460, and E4690 Embedded Discrete Graphics
AMD Radeon™ HD 7970M MXM 3.1 Type B Module Specification
Revision: 52607_1.0
Issue Date: 12/12/2012
Release Notes: Initial Release - This document provides the specifications for the module.
AMD Radeon™ E6760 Graphics Board With Six Display Outputs Driver
Revision: 52418_1.1
Issue Date: 12/18/2012
Release Notes: This is revision 1.1 of this document. The change from revision 1.0 (dated July 2012) is an embedded AMD Catalyst™ Driver (Windows® 7 and Linux®) is now available on the AMD Embedded Developer Support site that supports up to six displays with various AMD Eyefinity SLS grid configurations.
AMD Radeon™ E6460 GPU Databook
Revision: 49716_1.04
Issue Date: 12/05/2012
Release Notes: This is revision 1.04 of this document. The changes from revision 1.03 (dated April 2012) are renamed SS_IN to XO_IN2 and removed 32MB memory aperture size support from Memory Aperture Size (p.5) and Table 3–30 (p. 50).
ATI Radeon™ E4690 GPU Embedded Memory Product Advisory
Revision: EDG-0047A
Issue Date: 12/17/2012
Release Notes: Initial Release - This document notifies the user that AMD will transition the ATI Radeon™ E4690 GPU to a new memory due to memory vendor supply change.
Software Releases
AMD64 Processors
AMD EDID Emulation Utility (Windows®)
Revision: B
Issue Date: 12/17/2012
Software utility and application manual that allows users to perform Extended Display Identification Data (EDID) emulation. (#1163 - AMD64 Processor G-Series R-Series 780E 785E 780M E6460 E6760)
AMD Power Monitor (Linux® - Debian)
Revision: 1.7.8.42
Issue Date: 12/12/2012
AMD Power Monitor is intended to show the current frequency, voltage, utilization, and power savings of each core on each processor in a system. (#1177 - AMD64 Processor)
AMD Power Monitor (Linux® - RPM)
Revision: 1.7.8.89
Issue Date: 12/12/2012
AMD Power Monitor is intended to show the current frequency, voltage, utilization, and power savings of each core on each processor in a system. (#1037 - AMD64 Processor)
AMD System Access Utility (Linux® - Debian)
Revision: 2.5.1.163
Issue Date: 12/13/2012
AMD System Access Utility allows users to read and write various system hardware registers and memory space. (#1173 - AMD64 Processor)
AMD System Access Utility (Linux® - RPM)
Revision: 2.5.1.310
Issue Date: 12/13/2012
AMD System Access Utility allows users to read and write various system hardware registers and memory space. (#1100 - AMD64 Processor)
AMD Thermal Checker Utility (Linux® - Debian)
Revision: 1.7.5
Issue Date: 12/12/2012
AMD Thermal Checker is designed to test the hardware thermal control (HTC), software thermal control (STC), sideband interface (SBI) registers and Thermtrip features. The program monitors temperature over time, sets hardware throttling or software controlled trip points, gives control over SBI registers and displays a graph of HTC statistics over time. (#1186 - AMD64 Processor)
AMD Thermal Checker Utility (Linux® - RPM)
Revision: 1.7.5
Issue Date: 12/12/2012
AMD Thermal Checker is designed to test the hardware thermal control (HTC), software thermal control (STC), sideband interface (SBI) registers and Thermtrip features. The program monitors temperature over time, sets hardware throttling or software controlled trip points, gives control over SBI registers and displays a graph of HTC statistics over time. (#1187 - AMD64 Processor)
AMD ThermNow! Utility (Linux® - Debian)
Revision: 5.6.6.71
Issue Date: 12/7/2012
This utility is used to heat AMD processors for thermal testing and measurement. (#1178 - AMD64 Processor)
AMD ThermNow! Utility (Linux® - RPM)
Revision: 5.6.6.158
Issue Date: 12/7/2012
This utility is used to heat AMD processors for thermal testing and measurement. (#1179 - AMD64 Processor)
CPUInfo Utility (Linux® - Debian)
Revision: 3.4.9.87
Issue Date: 12/7/2012
This utility displays a variety of information pertaining to the system and to each AMD processor in the system. (#1240 - AMD64 Processor)
CPUInfo Utility (Linux® - RPM)
Revision: 3.4.9.238
Issue Date: 12/7/2012
This utility displays a variety of information pertaining to the system and to each AMD processor in the system. (#1241 - AMD64 Processor)
PSCheck Utility (Linux® - Debian)
Revision: 3.5.12
Issue Date: 12/7/2012
PSCheck is used to view the current performance state of each CPU in a system, as well as grant the user the ability to transition to different performance states. (#1172 - AMD64 Processor)
PSCheck Utility (Linux® - RPM)
Revision: 3.5.12
Issue Date: 12/7/2012
PSCheck is used to view the current performance state of each CPU in a system, as well as grant the user the ability to transition to different performance states. (#1039 - AMD64 Processor)
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