2 System on Chip (SOC) Design

2.2 Constituents of SOC

• general-purpose processors
• DSP processors
• embedded memory
• protocol block
• controllers for external memories
• standard interface controllers
  • USB cores
  • PCIe cores
  • ...
• clock generation and stabilization blocks
• power management blocks
• analog interfaces
• keyboard and disply interfaces
• radio interfaces
• boot loader
• embedded software
• ...

2.3.5 System Module Development Feasibility Study

In spite of system evaluation by means of system modelling, assuring the implementation possibility and hardware design constrains may restrict to achieving the design goal; in which case, the feasibility of the achieving the design target is realized by evaluating alternate implementations and selecting the right one.