Building Blocks of loT Design

摘要

For the past 10 years, smartphone technology has been the primary driver of innovation in the electronics industry, because chipmakers have constantly pushed to produce smaller, denser, cheaper and more powerful electronic components. To accomplish this, PC and smartphone designers have leveraged system-on-a-chip (SoC) technology. This IC (integrated circuit) model greatly facilitates integration-addressing space constraints-and enables economies of scale by fabricating the same chip designs on common process platforms in production runs of millions of units. During this period, the advantages of cost and integration outweighed any of the SoC's shortcomings.