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When System-on-Chip (SoC) developers include processors in their designs, they face choices in solving their computational challenges. Complex SoCs will usually have a variety of processor cores ...
When asked about how a central processing unit works, you might say it’s the brain of the computer. It does all the calculations on math and makes logical decisions based on certain outcomes. However, ...
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When System-on-Chip (SoC) developers include processors in their designs, they face choices in solving their computational challenges, as Codasip CTO Zdeněk Přikryl explains in this whitepaper.