Hardware

An embedded system consist of several components.

• Core System: soc (cpu , architecture specific)
• Peripherals connected via: PCI, PCIe, I2C, SPI, GPIO, USB, Vendor specific
• Special Hardware: cryptographic.hardware.accelerators
• Hardware developers often use interfaces that can directly write to chip registers or flash: JTAG, debug ports/pins
• Wireless

Embedded systems are designed and often have drawbacks for their advantages. Low power consumption and low performance (benchmark: performance/watt comparisons) In contrast to the early age of computers many vendors do not publish data sheets or programming handbooks for their SoC, wireless chips, boards, etc...

Index of hardware pages