Copyright
©
2017
congatec
AG
MA50m17
37/60
7
conga Tech Notes
The conga-MA5 has some technological features that require additional explanation. The following section will give the reader a better
understanding of some of these features. This information will also help the user to better understand the information found in the system
resources section of this user's guide as well as some of the setup nodes found in the BIOS Setup Description section.
7.1
Intel
®
Apollo Lake Features
7.1.1
Processor Core
Some of the features supported by the Intel
®
Apollo Lake SoC are:
•
Quad/Dual Core Processor
– 2 modules of 2 cores each (for Quad Core Processor)
– Supporting Out of Order Execution (OOE)
– Enhanced Intel SpeedStep
®
Technology
– Intel
®
64 bit Architecture
•
Intel
®
full virtualization architecture supports
– Intel
®
VT-x with Extended Page Tables (EPT)
– Intel
®
Virtualization Technology for Directed I/O (VT-d)
•
Thermal management support via Intel
®
Thermal Monitor (TM1 and TM2)
Note
Intel
®
Hyper-Threading technology is not supported (four cores execute four threads)
7.1.1.1
Intel Virtualization Technology
Intel
®
Virtualization Technology (Intel
®
VT) makes a single system appear as multiple independent systems to software. This allows multiple,
independent operating systems to run simultaneously on a single system. Intel
®
VT comprises technology components to support virtualization
of platforms based on Intel architecture microprocessors and chipsets. Intel
®
Virtualization Technology for IA-32, Intel
®
64 and Intel
®
Architecture
Intel
®
VT-x added hardware support in the processor to improve the virtualization performance and robustness.
