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==Introduction==
 
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Computational power achievable by system-on-chips built around Cortex-A8 processor make them appealing solution for several applications that historically have been implemented on x86-based processors.
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Computational power achievable by system-on-chips built around Cortex-A8 processor make them an appealing solution for several applications that historically have been implemented on x86-based processors.
  
 
This article, written as a list of commonly asked questions, aims to help system integrators and developers who are used to work on x86-based machines to make a sort of comparison between these two different approaches.
 
This article, written as a list of commonly asked questions, aims to help system integrators and developers who are used to work on x86-based machines to make a sort of comparison between these two different approaches.

Revision as of 13:52, 15 June 2012

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Introduction[edit | edit source]

Computational power achievable by system-on-chips built around Cortex-A8 processor make them an appealing solution for several applications that historically have been implemented on x86-based processors.

This article, written as a list of commonly asked questions, aims to help system integrators and developers who are used to work on x86-based machines to make a sort of comparison between these two different approaches.

Following images show simplified block diagram of x86-based PC-like architecture and Naon architecture.

x86-based PC-like architecture
Naon SOM architecture

This image shows in detail internal architecture of DM8148 digital media processor.

Naon SOM architecture

The first notable difference is about the integration level. By definition, system-on-chip such as DM8148, are designed to address embedded systems where footprint - in terms of PCB area and power budget - has to be minimized. To achieve this target, while

Where is the BIOS?[edit | edit source]

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What about GPU?[edit | edit source]

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