Industrial Controls  

Industrial Controls is an industry that has changed significantly in recent years. There are two main areas: industrial automation and control, and industrial imaging. The current trends in industrial automation and control require more complex tasks, faster production of high quality products and enhanced graphical user interfaces. These requirements demand that devices have precise timing, process complex control algorithms in real time and offer isolation between control and safety systems. To meet the wide range of price, power and performance requirements for Industrial Control and Automation applications, AMD offers a large selection of processor, chipset and discrete graphics solutions such as the AMD G-Series Processor which is the first Accelerated Processing Unit (APU) using the AMD Fusion architecture.

AMD Technology benefits for Industrial Automation and Control:

• High-performance and low power consumption
  
  The AMD G-Series Processors, with TDPs between 5-18W for the APU, offer an ideal solution for low-power and small form factor platforms while delivering a significant graphics performance boost in this power range.¹
• Direct Connect Architecture
  
  HyperTransport™ technology for high speed and low latency I/O and Integrated memory controller enabling simultaneous high speed computation and real time I/O
• AMD Virtualization™ technology
  
  Allow designers to implement separate isolated software algorithms on a single platform for safety and control

In industrial imaging, the trend today is to an increased number of, and more complex, assemblies to inspect. These trends require faster automated manufacturing tools that are able to capture data very quick, simultaneously analyze complex data, and quickly reject, or flag, out of spec assemblies to remove them from the manufacturing flow.

AMD Technology Benefits for Industrial Imaging:

• Extensive I/O Support
  
  To connect to the wide variety of I/Os found in industrial applications, the AMD solution offers support for the latest in high speed I/O including PCI Express^®.
• High I/O bandwidth
  
  The AMD Fusion architecture enables the combination of high speed and low latency I/O while simultaneously performing high speed computation for real-time applications.

AMD Direct Connect Architecture provides separate dedicated, high speed memory and I/O interfaces

• Low latency enabling predictability for real time operating systems and applications
• Enables simultaneous computational performance (utilizing memory) and I/O throughput (utilizing HyperTransport™ technology)