PROCESSOR ARCHITECTURES: ONE TO RULE THEM ALL?

摘要

CAN A SINGLE PROCESSOR ARCHITECTURE DO IT ALL AND IF SO, WOULD IT BE A GOOD IDEA? Much like Middle-earth in The Lord of the Rings, the ecosystem for embedded and computing systems is home to a diverse population. Instead of elves, dwarves, Hobbits, and humans, all manner of processor architectures inhabit the compute and embedded-processing ecosystem. The various microprocessors, digital signal processors, and microcontrollers implement different optimization choices to meet system designers' myriad design requirements.