System on a chip

A system-on-chip (short-form SoC) is a kind of electronic integrated circuit (IC or computer chip). What is special about system-on-chips is that they combine CPUs with other computers that can do things a CPU cannot do well, all on a single IC. For example, some system-on-chips have GPUs, cache memory, or video encoders. These computer parts are commonly called IP blocks (for intellectual property).^[1]

Modern electronic devices, like phones or IoT devices, use SoCs with other parts.

References

↑ Hennessy, John L.; Patterson, David A. (2019). Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach. Vol. 6. Elsevier. pp. 592–594. ISBN 978-0-12-811905-1.

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[1] Hennessy, John L.; Patterson, David A. (2019). Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach. Vol. 6. Elsevier. pp. 592–594. ISBN 978-0-12-811905-1.

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