Saturday, February 6, 2010

NEW TRENDS IN EMBEDDED SYSTEM H/W

NEW TRENDS IN EMBEDDED SYSTEM H/W

• Systems-on-chip –Usual (or desired) specs:
• 32-bit RISC CPU
• Built-in interfaces to RAM and ROM
• Built-in DMA, interrupt and timing controllers
• Built-in interfaces to disk or flash memory
• Built-in Ethernet/802.11 interfaces
• Built-in LCD/CRT interfaces –New SOCs appearing almost every week!
• Examples – Intel StrongARM SA-1110, Motorola PowerPC MPC823e
– NEC VR4181
– Many, many more

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