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Processing power

Mobile

Life-critical

Multimedia

Fig. 6.1 Different applications scenarios are converging to the same SoC design paradigm

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Core Host

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2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022

Number of Processing Engines

Total Logic Size
(Normalized to 2007,Left Y Axis)

Total Memory Size
(Normalized to 2007, Left Y Axis) (Right Y Axis)

Fig. 6.2 Increasing computing power density brings to ever more complex architectures with an
increasing count of per-chip functionality and resulting in more complex applications. The chart
represents the Processing Elements (PE) density per technology year [ 8 ]