Analysis of Thermal Monitor features of the Intel® Pentium® M Processor
Efi Rotem, Alon Naveh, Micha Moffie, Avi Mendelson · 2004
General purpose mobile processors present two new design challenges. The first is the need to achieve the best performance while fitting into limited thermal environment and the second is maximizing the battery life of the entire system. The Intel ® Pentium ® M processor has been developed specifically to target the mobile market and therefore, much emphasis was given to advanced mobile features which included improved power efficiency, advance ACPI interface and the Enhanced Intel SpeedStep ® technolgy. This paper focuses on both the thermal management and the battery life aspect of Intel Pentium M. The paper describes the new Enhanced Intel SpeedStep technology, evaluates its efficiency in terms of performance and energy consumption and compares thermal control schemes. 1