SOC and ASIC ?

Hello:

A SOC is a System On Chip and is independent of where you implement it, a FPGA a ASIC or wherever you want. An ASIC one of the possible ways to implement the SOC.

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Javier Castillo snipped-for-privacy@opensocdesign.com

snipped-for-privacy@yahoo.co.in (Muthu) wrote in news:4f8e807b.0408280300.129f3088 @posting.google.com:

hi ! (1) untill which stage does SOC development and FPGA development is common ?(i.e. design entry,simulation,synthesis,implementation).

(2) Are there any tools available for SOC development like those available for FPGA development by xilinx and altera on their respective websites?

Regards ved

Hi, It looks like SOC is a Classification of chip not a technology. Any SOC can be implemented in FPGA / ASIC. If the chip contains functionality of a system, then we shall call it as SOC. Some one correct if my understanding is not correct.

Here is a question further on this, Normally people refers any FPGA / ASIC project which contains many IP cores and some RISC processors as SOC. How ?

Regards, Muthu