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Basic SoC Components

This section is a review of actual hardware components and bus structures found on chips. Schematics and illustrative RTL fragments are provided.

In the old-fashioned approach, we notice that the hand-crafted RTL used for the hardware implementation has no computerised connection with the firmware, device drivers or non-synthesisable models used for architectural exploration. Later we briefly look at how IP-XACT solves this.

We start with revision of basic computer architecture ...


1: (C) 2008-11, DJ Greaves, University of Cambridge, Computer Laboratory.