What is exactly "System-on-chip"?

[GS]

I know many embedded systems like Cellphones, gameboy and all. Each
embedded system contains a Microprocessor (ARM or motorols processor)
and RAM, Flash ROM, DSP chip interface to main processor). But what is
this System-on-chip?. How it will be used and where it will be used?.

 

[Jim Thompson]

On 6 Feb 2005 08:09:07 -0800, "GS" <globalswamy@hotmail.com> wrote:

I know many embedded systems like Cellphones, gameboy and all. Each
embedded system contains a Microprocessor (ARM or motorols processor)
and RAM, Flash ROM, DSP chip interface to main processor). But what is
this System-on-chip?. How it will be used and where it will be used?.

Just like it sounds... a mixture of analog and digital all on a single
chip.

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[Winfield Hill]

GS wrote...

I know many embedded systems like Cellphones, gameboy and all. Each
embedded system contains a Microprocessor (ARM or motorols processor)
and RAM, Flash ROM, DSP chip interface to main processor). But what is
this System-on-chip?. How it will be used and where it will be used?.

I think it has something to do with the kitchen sink.


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[keith]

On Sun, 06 Feb 2005 08:09:07 -0800, GS wrote:

I know many embedded systems like Cellphones, gameboy and all. Each
embedded system contains a Microprocessor (ARM or motorols processor)
and RAM, Flash ROM, DSP chip interface to main processor). But what is
this System-on-chip?. How it will be used and where it will be used?.

It's a, mostly failed, attempt to use the transistors that have become
available as semiconductor processes have shrunk. Sweep the whole
"system" onto the "chip". The attempts I've seen involve having a menu of
macros (most hard macros) that can be plopped down on a chip to solve a
particular problem with minimum engineering. Unfortunately, the mask
costs for advanced processes are prohibitive for most applications.

--
Keith

 

[martin griffith]

On 6 Feb 2005 08:09:07 -0800, in sci.electronics.design "GS"
<globalswamy@hotmail.com> wrote:

I know many embedded systems like Cellphones, gameboy and all. Each
embedded system contains a Microprocessor (ARM or motorols processor)
and RAM, Flash ROM, DSP chip interface to main processor). But what is
this System-on-chip?. How it will be used and where it will be used?.
maybe this will help

www.psocdeveloper.com


martin

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Screen. Mind. Both are blank.

 

[keith]

On Sun, 06 Feb 2005 09:51:57 -0700, Jim Thompson wrote:

On 6 Feb 2005 08:33:48 -0800, Winfield Hill
hill_a@t_rowland-dotties-harvard-dot.s-edu> wrote:

GS wrote...

I know many embedded systems like Cellphones, gameboy and all. Each
embedded system contains a Microprocessor (ARM or motorols processor)
and RAM, Flash ROM, DSP chip interface to main processor). But what is
this System-on-chip?. How it will be used and where it will be used?.

I think it has something to do with the kitchen sink.

Isn't that SOS, the cleaner, or S-O-S, the food ?

Nah, SOS has been replaced by SOI. The second 'S' was too expensive.

--
Keith

 

[keith]

On Sun, 06 Feb 2005 10:57:29 -0700, Jim Thompson wrote:

On Sun, 06 Feb 2005 12:17:52 -0500, keith <krw@att.bizzzz> wrote:

On Sun, 06 Feb 2005 09:51:57 -0700, Jim Thompson wrote:

On 6 Feb 2005 08:33:48 -0800, Winfield Hill
hill_a@t_rowland-dotties-harvard-dot.s-edu> wrote:

GS wrote...

I know many embedded systems like Cellphones, gameboy and all. Each
embedded system contains a Microprocessor (ARM or motorols processor)
and RAM, Flash ROM, DSP chip interface to main processor). But what is
this System-on-chip?. How it will be used and where it will be used?.

I think it has something to do with the kitchen sink.

Isn't that SOS, the cleaner, or S-O-S, the food ?

Nah, SOS has been replaced by SOI. The second 'S' was too expensive.

In S-O-S, the second "S" stands for "shingle" ;-)

Do you only think about "food"? <sets one up>

--
Keith

 

[Paul Hovnanian P.E.]

Winfield Hill wrote:

GS wrote...

I know many embedded systems like Cellphones, gameboy and all. Each
embedded system contains a Microprocessor (ARM or motorols processor)
and RAM, Flash ROM, DSP chip interface to main processor). But what is
this System-on-chip?. How it will be used and where it will be used?.

I think it has something to do with the kitchen sink.

CMOS gets clogged drains?



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[keith]

On Sun, 06 Feb 2005 12:22:30 -0800, Paul Hovnanian P.E. wrote:

Winfield Hill wrote:

GS wrote...

I know many embedded systems like Cellphones, gameboy and all. Each
embedded system contains a Microprocessor (ARM or motorols processor)
and RAM, Flash ROM, DSP chip interface to main processor). But what is
this System-on-chip?. How it will be used and where it will be used?.

I think it has something to do with the kitchen sink.

CMOS gets clogged drains?

Yes, and SOS is the source of the clogs.

--
Keith