A 32nm high-k metal gate application processor with GHz multi-core CPU
Se-Hyun Yang, Lee Seogjun, Jae‐Young Lee, Jeonglae Cho, Hoi-Jin Lee, Dongsik Cho, Junghun Heo, Sunghoon Cho, Youngmin Shin, Sunghee Yun, Euiseok Kim, Uk-Rae Cho, Edward Pyo, Man Hyuk Park, Jae Cheol Son, Chinhyun Kim, Jeongnam Youn, Youngki Chung, Sungho Park, Seung Ho Hwang · 2012
Samsung's next-generation 32nm dual/quad-core Exynos™ processor integrates 2 or 4 ARM-v7A architecture cores, a 2-port DRAM controller and numerous multimedia accelerators and connectivity blocks on the same die. It is an application processor (AP) designed to cover a wide variety of mobile applications and handle unprecedented data-processing throughput and multimedia performance, without sacrificing the battery life or exceeding the thermal power dissipation envelope. The architecture diagram is shown in Fig. 12.1.1 and the die photo for the quad-core configuration is shown in Fig. 12.1.7.