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Where does big.LITTLE fit in the world of DynamIQ?arm Blogs - Govind Wathan, ARMApr. 07, 2017 |
The recent announcement of ARM DynamIQ technology has generated a lot of curiosity within both the tech industry and the tech-savvy consumers, regarding the impact on the future of big.LITTLE technology. The short answer is that big.LITTLE technology is included as a part of DynamIQ. Let’s take a step back and see how this all ties in with the bigger picture.
When big.LITTLE was launched in October 2011, it became the world’s first heterogeneous processing technology to enter the mobile market. The architecture of this technology consisted of a cluster of high-performance ‘big’ CPUs and a cluster of high-efficiency ‘LITTLE’ CPUs, linked through a coherent interconnect. Above this, sat a software layer (Global Task Scheduling) that seamlessly scheduled the right application task onto the right CPU.
