Lesson 25 Choosing the right core.ppt

《电子信息工程专业英语教程》 Lesson 25 Choosing the right core 《电子信息工程专业英语教程》任治刚 主编 电子工业出版社 Lesson 25 Choosing the right core Terminology Lifespan 使用期限，平均生命期，存在时间 bill of materials　　　 材料单 cross-compiler　　　 交叉编译器 Terminology CISC: Complex Instruction Set Computer　　 复杂指令集计算机 RISC: Reduced Instruction Set Computer　　 精简指令集计算机 PDA: Personal Digital Assistant　　 个人数字助理 Main 32-bit cores on the market at the moment Motorola 680x0 Intel x86 PowerPC MIPS SuperH ARM. You can use almost any PC-compatible operating system, and free software development tools. Installing operating systems is simple It is simple to interface literally thousands of peripheral components for almost any imaginable function. Driver support exists for almost any piece of hardware Highly integrated mainboards are available Migrating to a slightly different hardware platform is relatively simple Very expensive Few are true “system on chip” devices Significant power consumption, heat and size disadvantages. Modern x86 parts and their support chips are very high-speed devices in dense packages. PC peripheral ICs often have very short production lifespans Code to cold-boot a “bare” PC platform is usually very complicated JTAG-based or other hardware debugging systems aren’t usually available I recommend x86 as the platform of choice If you are building just a few of your appliance If you are prototyping something and want to pull together a lot of miscellaneous hardware features without spending a lot of time debugging the hardware design It’s also a good choice for an initial production run that you can ship to early adopters while you are developing a cheaper second-round customized hardware design. MIPS, SuperH and PowerPC are good candidates for many applications SuperH family is large and contains a wide variety of useful devices MIPS seems to be a more widely licensed core in third-party ASICs and ASSPs PowerPC seems to be found mainly in applications requiring very high performance My primar