System on Chip Interfaces for Low Power Design

System on Chip Interfaces for Low Power Design provides a top-down understanding of interfaces available to SoC developers, not only the underlying protocols and architecture of each, but also how they interact and the tradeoffs involved. The book offers a common context to help understand the variety of available interfaces and make sense of technology from different vendors aligned with multiple standards. With particular emphasis on power as a factor, the authors explain how each interface performs in various usage scenarios and discuss their advantages and disadvantages. Readers learn to make educated decisions on what interfaces to use when designing systems and gain insight for innovating new/custom interfaces for a subsystem and their potential impact. Provides a top-down guide to SoC interfaces for memory, multimedia, sensors, display, and communication Explores the underlying protocols and architecture of each interface with multiple examples Guides through competing standards and explains how different interfaces might interact or interfere with each other Explains challenges in system design, validation, debugging and their impact on development.

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Front Cover; System on Chip Interfaces for Low Power Design; Copyright; Copyright Permissions; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: SoC Design Fundamentals and Evolution; Introduction; Typical system components; Categorization of computer systems; System approach to design; Hardware software co-design; System design methodologies; System on board; Advantages of SoB; Disadvantages of SoB; System on chip; Advantages of SoC; Disadvantages of SoC; System in a package; Advantages of SiP; Disadvantages of SiP; Application-specific integrated circuit; Advantages of ASIC.

Disadvantages of ASICSystem on programmable chip; Advantage of SoPC; Disadvantage of SoPC; System design trends; Hardware IC design fundamentals; Chip design tradeoff; Chapter 2: Understanding Power Consumption Fundamentals; Why power optimization is important; Power consumption in IC; Static power; Leakage power; Standby power; Dynamic power; Power optimization in IC; Power consumption of a system; Power optimization at the system level; Active power management; Idle power management; Connected standby power management; ACPI states; Global and system states; Device states; Processor states.

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