What is the SoC ?

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: OpenSansRegular; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: red; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-weight: 700; word-wrap: break-word;">Q1- What is the SoC?</span></span></span></span></div><div align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: OpenSansRegular; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;"></span></span></span></div><div align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: OpenSansRegular; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-weight: 700; word-wrap: break-word;">Ans-</span>  A SoC is a </span></span></span><span style="color: #222222; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: 16px; word-wrap: break-word;">complicated </span></span></span><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;">integrated circuit that stuff most or all </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;">of the functions of a complete electronic system. Exactly what components are assembled on the SoC changes with the application. Many SoCs implant analog and mixed-signal circuit for both input/output (I/O), but most of SoC’s are digital because that is the only way to produce such </span></span></span><span style="color: #222222; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: 16px; word-wrap: break-word;">complicated </span></span></span><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;">functions properly. Also SoC refers to </span></span></span><span style="color: #222222; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: 16px; word-wrap: break-word;">unified </span></span></span><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;">all components of a computer or other electronic system into a single integrated circuit (chip). It may contain digital, analog, mixed-signals,memory, CPUs, specialized logic, busses all on a single chip substrate. A complicated application is in the area of embedded systems. Many SoC products can be built using industry-standard CMOS technology for better power consumption.</span></span></span></div><div align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: OpenSansRegular; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;">In the Simple word SoC means “<span style="font-weight: 700; word-wrap: break-word;">Something which contains more than a Simple Processor</span>”.</span></span></span></div><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: OpenSansRegular; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><div align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: OpenSansRegular; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><div align="center" style="word-wrap: break-word;"><ignore_js_op style="word-wrap: break-word;"><img aid="274498" file="data/attachment/forum/201502/05/203906pdn4n4dye4ee09q4.jpg.thumb.jpg" id="aimg_274498" initialized="true" inpost="1" src="http://en.miui.com/data/attachment/forum/201502/05/203906pdn4n4dye4ee09q4.jpg.thumb.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; word-wrap: break-word;" zoomfile="data/attachment/forum/201502/05/203906pdn4n4dye4ee09q4.jpg" /></ignore_js_op></div></div><div align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: OpenSansRegular; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><div align="center" style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: x-small; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-weight: 700; word-wrap: break-word;">Electronic module from a Hamilton Pulsar digital watch</span></span></span></div></div><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: OpenSansRegular; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><div align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: OpenSansRegular; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: red; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-weight: 700; word-wrap: break-word;">Q2- When was the first Soc appeared?</span></span></span></span></div><div align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: OpenSansRegular; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;"></span></span></span></div><div align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: OpenSansRegular; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-weight: 700; word-wrap: break-word;">Ans-</span> </span></span></span><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;">The first SOC </span></span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: 16px; word-wrap: break-word;">rationale </span></span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: 16px; word-wrap: break-word;">developed </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;">from the $2,100 Hamilton Pulsar "Wrist Computer" digital watch </span></span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: 16px; word-wrap: break-word;">exposed </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;">on the Johnny Carson Show in 1970. </span></span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: 16px; word-wrap: break-word;">contemplate </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;">by George Thiess and Willy Crabtree at Electro-Data, Inc., the watch holds 44 chips and 4,000 bonding wires was seems unreliable until RCA engineers </span></span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: 16px; word-wrap: break-word;">diminished </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;">the time </span></span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: 16px; word-wrap: break-word;">deferment </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;">circuitry to one chip. External transistors were still required to drive power-hungry light emitting diode (LED) displays. In 1972-73 Microma and Seiko introduced low-power liquid crystal displays (LCD) that extended battery life by orders of </span></span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: 16px; word-wrap: break-word;">quantity</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;">. Intersil co-founders John Hall and Jean Hoerni created the Seiko chip.</span></span></span></div><div align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: OpenSansRegular; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;"><br style="word-wrap: break-word;" /></span></span></span></div><div align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: OpenSansRegular; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;">The first true SOC come out in a Microma watch in1974 when Peter Stoll </span></span></span><span style="color: #222222; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: 16px; word-wrap: break-word;">unified </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;">the LCD driver transistors as well as the timing functions onto a single Intel 5810 CMOS chip. TI's single chip LCD watch, introduced at under $20 in 1976, started a battle of </span></span></span><span style="color: #222222; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: 16px; word-wrap: break-word;">friction</span></span></span><span style="color: #222222; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: 16px; word-wrap: break-word;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;">withTimex and dozens of other semiconductor manufacturers who entered the market.</span></span></span></div><div align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: OpenSansRegular; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;"><br style="word-wrap: break-word;" /></span></span></span></div><div align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: OpenSansRegular; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;"></span></span></span></div><div align="center" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: OpenSansRegular; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><ignore_js_op style="word-wrap: break-word;"><img aid="272166" file="data/attachment/forum/201502/02/002836izo55rrrfkuo6mov.png.thumb.jpg" id="aimg_272166" initialized="true" inpost="1" src="http://en.miui.com/data/attachment/forum/201502/02/002836izo55rrrfkuo6mov.png.thumb.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; word-wrap: break-word;" zoomfile="data/attachment/forum/201502/02/002836izo55rrrfkuo6mov.png" /></ignore_js_op></div><div align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: OpenSansRegular; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-weight: 700; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: red; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;"><br style="word-wrap: break-word;" /></span></span></span></span></div><div align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: OpenSansRegular; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-weight: 700; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: red; word-wrap: break-word;">Q3- What is Inside a SoC?</span></span></span></span></div><div align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: OpenSansRegular; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;"></span></span></span></div><div align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: OpenSansRegular; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-weight: 700; word-wrap: break-word;">Ans-</span> Now that we know what a SoC is, let’s take a quick look at the components that can be found inside it. Mind you, not all thefollowing parts are built in all the different SoCs that we’re going to showyou later on, but in order to better understand how a SoC works, you shouldhave a general picture of what goes inside it:</span></span></span></div><div align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: OpenSansRegular; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;"></span></span></span></div><div align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: OpenSansRegular; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;">Processors,Memory, I/O, ASIC, A/D Converter etc.</span></span></span></div><div align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: OpenSansRegular; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;"><br style="word-wrap: break-word;" /></span></span></span></div><div align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: OpenSansRegular; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;"></span></span></span></div><div align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: OpenSansRegular; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: red; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-weight: 700; word-wrap: break-word;">Q4- Where is we get SoCs?</span></span></span></span></div><div align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: OpenSansRegular; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;"></span></span></span></div><div align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: OpenSansRegular; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-weight: 700; word-wrap: break-word;">Ans-</span> Systems-on-chipscan be found in many product categories ranging from consumer devices toindustrial systems:</span></span></span></div><div align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: OpenSansRegular; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;"><br style="word-wrap: break-word;" /></span></span></span></div><div align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: OpenSansRegular; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;">• Speech Signal Processing.</span></span></span></div><div align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: OpenSansRegular; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;">• Imageand Video Signal Processing.</span></span></span></div><div align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: OpenSansRegular; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;">•Information Technologies</span></span></span></div><div align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: OpenSansRegular; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;">– PC interface(USB) Computer peripheries (printer control, LCD monitor controller, DVD</span></span></span></div><div align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: OpenSansRegular; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;">controller,.etc).</span></span></span></div><div align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: OpenSansRegular; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;">• DataCommunication</span></span></span></div><div align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: OpenSansRegular; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;">– Wireline Communication: Gigabit Ethernet, Etc</span></span></span></div><div align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: OpenSansRegular; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;">– Wireless communication: Bluetooth, WLAN,2G/3G/4G, WiMax etc</span></span></span></div><div align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: OpenSansRegular; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;"></span></span></span></div><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: OpenSansRegular; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><div align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: OpenSansRegular; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;"><br style="word-wrap: break-word;" /></span></span></div><div align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: OpenSansRegular; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><div align="center" style="word-wrap: break-word;"><ignore_js_op style="word-wrap: break-word;"><img aid="274500" file="data/attachment/forum/201502/05/204019f4hfkk88c28kr8sl.jpg.thumb.jpg" id="aimg_274500" initialized="true" inpost="1" src="http://en.miui.com/data/attachment/forum/201502/05/204019f4hfkk88c28kr8sl.jpg.thumb.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; word-wrap: break-word;" zoomfile="data/attachment/forum/201502/05/204019f4hfkk88c28kr8sl.jpg" /></ignore_js_op></div></div><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: OpenSansRegular; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><div align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: OpenSansRegular; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: red; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-weight: 700; word-wrap: break-word;">Q5- What is the typical Architecture of SoC?</span></span></span></span></div><div align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: OpenSansRegular; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;"></span></span></span></div><div align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: OpenSansRegular; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-weight: 700; word-wrap: break-word;">Ans-</span> As an example of typical SoC showing how the software of a programmable componentcan be structuredon top of the hardware. Here, the real-time operating system (RTOS) includes aprocess scheduler. A DSP with a fixed process execution order and optimized memory communication will needfewer RTOS functions,but not so in real-time mobile applications. In other words, the heterogeneousand multifarious hardwarearchitecture of mobile phones leads to similarly heterogeneous and multifacetedsoftware</span></span></span></div><div align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: OpenSansRegular; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;">architecture.</span></span></span></div><div align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: OpenSansRegular; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;"></span></span></span></div><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: OpenSansRegular; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><div align="left" style="background-color: white; 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color: #444444; font-family: OpenSansRegular; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;"><br style="word-wrap: break-word;" /></span></span></span></div><div align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: OpenSansRegular; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: red; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-weight: 700; word-wrap: break-word;">Q6- How many Soc’s Available in Mobile Industry?</span></span></span></span></div><div align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: OpenSansRegular; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;"></span></span></span></div><div align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: OpenSansRegular; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-weight: 700; word-wrap: break-word;">Ans-</span> There are many Soc’s available in mobile Industry like, Intel’s Atom-basedsystem-on-chips , Samsung’s  Hummingbird, Qualcomm’s Snapdragon,Nvidia’s  Tegra Etc.</span></span></span></div><div align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: OpenSansRegular; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;"><br style="word-wrap: break-word;" /></span></span></span></div><div align="left" style="background-color: white; 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word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;"><br style="word-wrap: break-word;" /></span></span></span></div><div align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: OpenSansRegular; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: red; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-weight: 700; word-wrap: break-word;">Q7-What is the advantage of System on Chip?</span></span></span></span></div><div align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: OpenSansRegular; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;"></span></span></span></div><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: OpenSansRegular; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><div align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: OpenSansRegular; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-weight: 700; word-wrap: break-word;">Ans-</span> <span style="font-family: Arial; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;">The benefits that this brings are significant in terms of speed, area and power like-</span></span></span></div><div align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: OpenSansRegular; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;"></span></span></span></div><div align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: OpenSansRegular; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><ul style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><li style="list-style: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;">       Higherperformance-  Fast data transferscompared to Multi-chip design.</span></span></span></li></ul></div><div align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: OpenSansRegular; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;"></span></span></span></div><div align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: OpenSansRegular; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><ul style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><li style="list-style: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;">       Lower powerconsumption-  Multi-chip design needsadditional drivers/ power for inter-chip and inter-board connection.</span></span></span></li></ul></div><div align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: OpenSansRegular; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;"></span></span></span></div><div align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: OpenSansRegular; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><ul style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><li style="list-style: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;">       Low Costing</span></span></span></li></ul></div><div align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: OpenSansRegular; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: black; word-wrap: break-word;"></span></span></span></div><div align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: OpenSansRegular; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; word-wrap: break-word;"><ul style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><li style="list-style: disc; 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