Short Course: Processors for the Internet of Everything
Shichin Ouyang · 2016
Application processors used in desktop or mobile devices focus mainly on delivering highest performance with highest power efficiency. However, processors in today?s IoE SoCs also need to provide real-time processing and responsiveness, high scalability and high configurability to meet a variety of IoE application uses, high flexibility to integrate the user?s own in-house features and high-security features at each level and each node on the connected systems to avoid attack or error conditions. The focus of optimization on IoE processors therefore depends heavily on application scenarios and SoC architectures, with emphasis on ultra-low-power operation. The presentation will review the IoE processor challenges mentioned above, summarize some of the well-known solutions currently in use, and introduce recently developed SoC architectures, systems, physical implementations, and circuit innovations.