PRESENTED BY: SUNIL YADAV

Confidential

ABSTRACT
QUALCOMM SNAPDRAGON
INTRODUCTION :Snapdragon is a family of mobile systems on a chip (SOC) by Qualcomm. Qualcomm
considers Snapdragon a "platform" for use in smartphones, tablets, and smart book
devices.
The original Snapdragon CPU, dubbed Scorpion, is Qualcomm's own design. It has
many features similar to those of the ARM Cortex-A8 core and it is based on
the ARMv7 instruction set, but theoretically has much higher performance for
multimedia-related SIMD operations.The successor to Scorpion, found in S4
Snapdragon SoCs, is named Krait and has many similarities with the ARM CortexA15 CPU and is also based on the ARMv7 instruction set.
The majority of Snapdragon processors contain the circuitry to decode high-definition
video (HD) resolution at 720p or 1080p depending on the Snapdragon chip. Adreno,
the company's proprietary GPU series, integrated into Snapdragon chips (and certain
other Qualcomm chips) is Qualcomm's own design, using assets the company
acquired from AMD. The Adreno 225 GPU in Snapdragon S4 SoCs adds support
for DirectX 9/Shader Model 3.0, which makes it compatible with Microsoft's Windows
8.
All Snapdragons feature one or more DSPs called Hexagon, short QDSP5 or QDSP6
in the modem and multimedia parts. In the Snapdragon 200800 series, one of the
multimedia Hexagons is programmable by the users through the Hexagon SDK. The
multimedia Hexagons are mostly used for audio encoding/decoding, the newer
Snapdragons have a hardware block called Venus for video encoding/decoding.
Compared to systems on chips from many competitors, Snapdragon SoCs have been
unique in that they have had the modem for cellular communication on-die. That is,
they do not require an external cellular modem on the PCB. Since Snapdragon S4, the
majority of S4 SoCs also features on-die WiFi, GPS/GLONASS and Bluetooth basebands This integration reduces the complexity
and cost of the final design for the OEM. It also has the advantage of benefiting from
advances in the manufacturing process, for example 28 nm in most S4 SoCs, thus

ABSTRACT

Confidential

providing modems and other dedicated circuitry with lower power characteristics than
external chips manufactured with older processes.

HISTORY :

In 4th Quarter of 2008, the first chips in the Snapdragon family, the
QSD8650 and the QSD8250, were made available.

On 1 June 2010, Qualcomm announced sampling of the MSM8x60 series

of Snapdragon SoCs.

On 17 November 2010, Qualcomm announces the roadmap for Next-Gen

Snapdragon SoC development, including the MSM8960, citing future improvements
in CPU and GPU performance and lower power consumption.

On 5 January 2011, a version of Microsoft Windows 7 compiled for ARM

was shown running on the Snapdragon SoC at the 2011 Consumer Electronics
Show.

On 3 August 2011, Qualcomm announced a plan to use simple names

(S1, S2, S3 and S4) for Snapdragon processors so that the public can better
understand the products. The higher the number, the newer generation of SoC it is.

On 7 January 2013, Qualcomm announced new names and tiers for the
2013 line of Snapdragon SoC's, Snapdragon 200, 400, 600 and 800.The model tiers
can easiest be described as equivalent to the Play (200), Plus (400), Pro (600) and
Prime (800) tiers of the S4 generation of SoCs.

On 3 July 2014, Qualcomm announced that they acquired Wilocity to gain

access to their 60 GHz multi-gigabit wireless technology. Qualcomm also
announced the Snapdragon 810 and that it would utilize the technology.

Snapdragon sponsored a League Of Legends team under the name of

Team SoloMid during the season 3 of LCS.

ABSTRACT

Confidential

TYPES OF SNAPDRAGON :

Snapdragon S1

Snapdragon S2

Snapdragon S3

Snapdragon S4

Snapdragon 200 series

o

6.1 Snapdragon 200

6.2 Snapdragon 208

6.3 Snapdragon 210

Snapdragon 400 series

o

7.1 Snapdragon 400

7.2 Snapdragon 410

Snapdragon 600 series

o

8.1 Snapdragon 600

8.2 Snapdragon 602A

ABSTRACT

Confidential

8.3 Snapdragon 610

8.4 Snapdragon 615

Snapdragon 800 series

o

9.1 Snapdragon 800

9.2 Snapdragon 801

9.3 Snapdragon 805

9.4 Snapdragon 808

9.5 Snapdragon 810

FEATURES OF SNAPDRAGON 810 :Notable features include:

ARMv8-A (64-bit architecture)

Dolby Atmos

Directional micro support

Wifi 11ac / 11ad

ABSTRACT

Confidential

Built in Shazam app

H.265/HEVC encoding/decoding

eMMC 5.0 support

Native 4k support

Native Bluetooth 4.1 support

14-bit dual-ISP

support for triple-band (i.e. IEEE 802.11n, IEEE 802.11ac and IEEE 802.11ad (60 GHz).

ABSTRACT

Confidential

CPU

GPU

Memory

DSP

technology

G
P

Wireless

Mo
del

nu

mb

Ut

ili

pli

zi

ng

ng

av

de

ail

vi

ab

ce

ilit

er

In
str
uc
tio
n
se

Micr
oarc
hitec
ture

C
o
r
e
s

e
q

Micr

oarc

hitec

ture

Fr

Fr

q.
(
M
H

Micr
oarc
hitec
ture

z)

q.
(
M
H

u
s
T

Ban

id

dwid

th(G

B/s)

C
el
lu
la
r

z)

W
L
A
N

P
A
N

bi

t)

3
Cort

ex-

A57

bi

Cort

ex-

A53

Adre

(with

no

v8

Glob

430

-A

al

89
94

H
P

Task

Sch
eduli
ng)

5
0
M
H
z

to
Hex

agon

V56

0
M
H
z

L
P
D
D
R
4

1600

MHz

al

(25.

6G

B/s)

L
T
E
C
at
9

8
0
2.
1
1
a
c

Bl
u

Li

et

ot

20

14

4.

st[
sh
ow
]

n
n
ABSTRACT
el