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Raspberry Pi 3 Cookbook for Python Programmers - Third Edition
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Raspberry Pi 3 Cookbook for Python Programmers - Third Edition

by Steven Lawrence Fernandes, Tim Cox
April 2018
Beginner content levelBeginner
552 pages
13h 58m
English
Packt Publishing
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Introduction

The chip at the heart of the original Raspberry Pi (a Broadcom BCM2835 processor) was originally designed to be a Graphical Processing Unit (GPU) for mobile and embedded applications. The ARM core that drives most of Raspberry Pi's functionality was added because some extra space was available on the chip; this enabled this powerful GPU to be used as a System-on-Chip (SoC) solution.

An SoC is an integrated service microchip with all the necessary electronic circuits and parts of a computer or electronic system, it is used in smartphones or wearable computers, on a single integrated circuit (IC).

As you can imagine, if that original ARM core (ARM1176JZF-S, which is the ARMv6 architecture) consisted of only a small part of the ...

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