A primer on mobile systems used for heterogeneous computing

By _Imagination Blog

August 5, 2015

In the mobile and embedded market, the design constraints of electronic products can sometimes be seen as tight and contradictory: the market demands higher performance yet lower power consumption, reductions in cost but shorter time-to-market.

These constraints have created a trend for more specialized hardware designs that fit a particular application; if each task is well matched to a functional unit, fewer transistors are wasted and power efficiency is better. As a result, application processors have become increasingly heterogeneous over time, integrating multiple components into a single System-on-Chip (SoC).

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