What is System on a Chip | 什麼是 System on a Chip (系統晶片、SoC)?

4 major points to help the public understand SoC and the role Taiwan plays in it | 4 大點幫助大眾了解 SoC,以及台灣在其中扮演的角色

Eric
Insights the Chips World | 洞悉晶片的世界

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5:42 pm Taichung, Taiwan, October 6, 2021 (in quarantine)

Motivation

When you enter “System on a Chip introduction” on Youtube, you will find that the most viewed chip introduction is “Teacher Li Yongle’s” in mandarin communities, with more than 3 million views. Most of the introductions are made by Chinese people. There are very few Taiwanese so-called “amateur” introductions.

For example, if you enter machine learning, you can find teacher Li Hongyi. For chips industry, we can at most see an introduction from Zhiqi77 (a Taiwan Youtuber), but it is just an introduction to semiconductors, and he can only be regarded as a “journalist”. My original intention was to make a Youtube, but to be honest, making videos is quite difficult and I couldn’t get started, so I decided to make it simpler with articles (but there are actually some articles by others around the same topic already).

20 UC Berkeley students (including me) rolled out a wireless communication IC within one semester. We use TSMC 28nm mature process, free RISC-V Core and Open-sourced SoC Dev tool — Chipyard.

Taiwan has such a huge influence on the chip industry, and things like SoC are so successful because they take advantage of advances in semiconductors. I hope that more people…

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Eric
Insights the Chips World | 洞悉晶片的世界

Senior Software Engineer at Tesla | 2021 UC Berkeley EECS | 2019 NTUEE.