SoCs find a home in low-end embedded design

EE Times (USA)

http://www.eetimes.com/story/OEG20030109S0029

Until recently, the system-on-chip approach, programmable mixed-signal functionality and mainstream embedded design were considered worlds apart." Now a fusion of frugal hardware integration and advanced software arts creates a category of programmable SoCs that provides user-configurable, mixed-signal system functionality.