Thursday, December 03, 2009

System Questions

1) x86 & ARM platform

2) qualcomm snapdragon vs samsung ARM
both ARM-based?
ASIC: application specific IC
SoC: system-on-chip
integrated processors for embedded systems
bus, I/O chipsets, memory controllers (RAM,ROM,...), graphics accelerator

3) NAND vs NOR
NAND can be denser (most usb flash memory)
NOR is more reliable? (used for BIOS ROM)

4) HDMI mirror?

5) embedded controller (EC)

6) bluez

7) at command set (for serial terminal?)

8) SSD, DRAM, SRAM, flash memory
SRAM: static RAM, faster, expensive, less power in idle state
DRAM: dynamic RAM
SDRAM: synchronous DRAM
EEPROM: early flash, byte-wide erasable, flash is usually page-wide erasable

No comments: