The X 86 Microprocessors: Architecture, Programming and Interfacing (8086 to Pentium) 2nd Edition by Pearson

ATOM SoC–INTEL’S HIGH-END EMBEDDED PROCESSOR 18-3

Embedded systems have to be looked up in a different perspective. For embedded

applications, the following points are to be noted:

i) All the peripheral controllers are expected to be inside the processor chip and then

the chip becomes an SoC.

ii) Many embedded systems operate on battery power and hence conserving power is

very important. SoCs for such uses are expected to have very low power dissipation,

both in active and idle states.

iii) Most embedded products are expected to be of small physical size.

iv) As embedded systems have become very advanced in terms of their handling of

signals like audio, image and video, the computational capability of an embedded

processor SoC should encompass ...