Processor in the System

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 Flow Control Unit(CU)

Fetch Decode

Execution Unit(EU)
ALU Execute

Considerations:
Instruction Set Max bits in Operand Clock frequency (MIPS, Dhrystone) Ability to solve complex algorithms

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Embedded Processor Chip

General Purpose Processor(GPP)
Microprocessor Microcontroller Embedded Processor

Application Specific Instruction Set Processor(ASIP)

Microcontroller DSP Network Processor etc

Single Purpose Processor

Coprocessor(FPU, Graphic etc)

ASIC or FPGA Application Specific System Processor(ASSP) Multicore Processor or Multiprocessor

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Microprocessor
ALU, FPU, Pipelining, Caches Used in case of Intensive computations Large Embedded S/W Lot of instructions available Interfaces are reusable Availability of compilers Availability of debuggers, APIs from prev apps Many Functional blocks go unused.
Intel 8086(CISC) ARM(RISC) Sun SPARC(CISC)
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Microcontroller
ASIP Processor, RAM, ROM/Flash, External Memory I/O, UART, Sync Comm, DMA, ADC, CAN etc
Motorola, Freescale HC12XX(CISC) Intel 8051(CISC) Microchip PIC18(CISC) ARM 7/9/Cortex M3(RISC)

Some H/W design may not be required.

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Embedded Processor
GPP Fast, precise, intensive operations Ex: Electronics warfare , Real time image processing Capabilites:
Fast context switching RISC Core

Ex: ARM 7,9 , Intel i960

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Embedded Microcontroller
Large ROM More timers Interrupts avaialbility

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Single Purpose Processors

Coprocessors (FPU) Graphics processor Pixel Processor Encryption/Decryption Engine Speech & Video Processing Network Processor Accelerators(Java) CODEC Controller(DMA, Bus etc)
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DSP
ASIP When processing of signals is required Image processing, multimedia, audio, video, HDTV DCT, IDCT, MAC Compute SIMD instructions fast
TMS320Cxx(Texas) SHARC 5600xx(Motorola)
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Application Specific System Processor(ASSP)

Real-time processing High definition TV Decoders ASSP dedicated to tasks alone provides faster solution Used in application specific task and replace processing of software
Serial to Ethernet converter i2Chip W3100A has TCP, IP , Ethernet etc hardwired
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Multiprocessor/Multicore
Need of execution within deadlines where one Processor cannot meet operations Mobile Phones Realtime video processing Multimedia applications

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