SYSTEM ON CHIP (SOC)-Need of the hour

[manimail2007]

hi techies..

System on Chip is the recent trend in VLSI technology.I wish to learn and design a soc on my own.could you suggest me how to start?
what are the basic elements of soc? what book is useful for that? Ideas are greatly appreciated. i am eagrly waiting for your reply dudes....:roll:

 

[jeet_asic]

A system on a chip or system on chip (SoC or SOC) is an integrated circuit (IC) that integrates all components of a computer or other electronic system into a single chip. It may contain digital, analog, mixed-signal, and often radio-frequency functions—all on a single chip substrate. A typical application is in the area of embedded systems.

The contrast with a microcontroller is one of degree. Microcontrollers typically have under 100 kB of RAM (often just a few kilobytes) and often really are single-chip-systems, whereas the term SoC is typically used with more powerful processors, capable of running software such as the desktop versions of Windows and Linux, which need external memory chips (flash, RAM) to be useful, and which are used with various external peripherals. In short, for larger systems system on a chip is hyperbole, indicating technical direction more than reality: increasing chip integration to reduce manufacturing costs and to enable smaller systems. Many interesting systems are too complex to fit on just one chip built with a process optimized for just one of the system's tasks.

When it is not feasible to construct an SoC for a particular application, an alternative is a system in package (SiP) comprising a number of chips in a single package. In large volumes, SoC is believed to be more cost-effective than SiP since it increases the yield of the fabrication and because its packaging is simpler.[1]
Another option, as seen for example in higher end cell phones and on the Beagle Board, is package on package stacking during board assembly. The SoC chip includes processors and numerous digital peripherals, and comes in a ball grid package with lower and upper connections. The lower balls connect to the board and various peripherals, with the upper balls in a ring holding the memory buses used to access NAND flash and DDR2 RAM. Memory packages could come from multiple vendors.


#Books

1) (2003) Wael Badawy, Graham Jullien (2003). System-on-chip for real-time applications. Kluwer. ISBN 1402072546, 9781402072543.
Furber, Stephen B. (2000). ARM system-on-chip architecture. Boston: Addison-Wesley. ISBN 0-201-67519-6.

 

[yadavvlsi]

You can refer to:
Modern VLSI design: system-on-chip design by Wayne Wolf

 

[manimail2007]

hi jeet_asic...really nice and brief introduction about soc.thanks a lot for mentioning book

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You can refer to:
Modern VLSI design: system-on-chip design by Wayne Wolf

Thanks yadavvlsi

that book is some what tough to read...could u tell some other book in which basics of soc are present..