The BE-T1000 processors (they are also “Baikal-T1”) have
arrived at electronic component
stores and devices. Distribution is handled by Chip and Dip retail stores. Now the online store states that delivery to a warehouse in Moscow is expected on June 8, 2018 in the amount of 42 pieces. The processor can already be added to the cart at a price of 3990 rubles.
Retail sales of "Baikal" began in April 2018, but only as part of the evaluation boards BFK3.1 - in fact, single-board computers for developing system and application software, designing and prototyping hardware solutions, etc. Now the processor is sold separately.
The BE-T1000 processor (Baikal-T1) contains two P5600 processing cores with a clock speed of up to 1.2 GHz on the MIPS32r5 architecture. There is a memory controller DDR3-1600 ECC; declared support for interfaces 1/10 Gb Ethernet, PCIe Gen.3, ports SATA 3.0 and USB 2.0. Consumption less than 5 watts. Technological process 28 nm. According to the description, "this is a modern energy-efficient processor with a wide range of high-speed interfaces, designed for a wide range of target devices in the consumer and B2B segments."
The block diagram of the processor BE-T1000A
short description of the processor , a
block diagram ,
benchmarks and an
information leaflet are published on the store's website. Additional information - Debian 9.0 image, SDK version 4.13 and brief Linux installation instructions.
In the Coremark benchmark, the Baikal-T1 processor shows a performance of 12,364 points (10.3 points per megahertz, 5.15 points per megahertz per core) in Linux 4.4.44. When building the benchmark, the GCC 5.3 and Mentor GCC 4.9.1 compilers were used with the plugin, and the settings were used to get the maximum performance on Coremark.
In the Dhrystone test, the performance was 4398 VAX MIPS (1 thread), that is, 3.66 DMIPS per megahertz.
In the Whetstone test, the performance was 1213 MWIPS (2 threads), that is, 0.51 MWIPS per megahertz per core. STREAM Copy: 3119.2 MB / s, Scale: 3109.9 MB / s, Add: 2466.9 MB / s, Triad: 2467.7 MB / s.
The results on various benchmarks from the SPEC CPU2006 INT package (ref workload) are shown in the diagram.
The results on the benchmark iperf (ver. 2.0.5,
iperf.fr ) for testing the bandwidth of the Internet channel (GbE interface, TCP protocol) - from 940 to 942 Mbit / s, in the tests “Baikal” was tested as a “server” and as a "client".
Recall that the evaluation board BFK3.1, which went on sale earlier, has the following characteristics:
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Processor : BE-T1000, 2 core P5600 MIPS32r5
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Clock frequency : 1.2 GHz
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Second level cache : 1 MB
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Type of RAM : 1x SO-DIMM DDR3-1600 (PC3-12800)
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Non-volatile memory : 128 MB NOR Flash (boot), 256 MB NOR Flash
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Ethernet : 1x 10 GB (10GBASE-KR, 10GBASE-KX4), 2x 1 GB (1000BASE-TX)
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Input / Output Interfaces : PCI Express, 1x PCIe Gen3x4, SATA, 2x SATA III, USB, 1x USB 2.0 Type A
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Serial interfaces : 2x UART, 2x SPI, 2x I2C, GPIO, 32
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Management console : 2x USB type Mini-AB
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Debug Interface : EJTAG
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Operating system : Embedded Linux 4.4 (Busybox RootFS), U-Boot
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Power Source : ATX 2.0
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Form Factor : FlexATX
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Dimensions : 229 × 191 mm (9.0 ″ x 7.5 ")
“We are pleased to expand cooperation with one of the largest international retail chains. Now our main goal is to reduce for developers the cost of entering projects. We will do this by improving the quality of documentation, creating a set of software, updating and distributing application guidelines and draft designs, ”says Baikal Electronics.
On this topic:Be careful - Baikal-T1! Or the story of one project with an attempt to use "import substitution" , +219 following the results of voting at Habré (Note for hardware developers who are already watching, or are only going to look towards the Baikal-T1 processor. So to say, information to think about the real story communication with the company Baikal Electronics (BE) and what came out of an applied project as a result of an attempt to use "import substitution." Author: P. Semenov, Ph.D., "MicroLAB Systems", Moscow).