Hardware/Software Introduction Chapter 1 Introduction
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Moore’s law<br />
• The most important trend in embedded systems<br />
– Predicted in 1965 by Intel co-founder Gordon Moore<br />
IC transistor capacity has doubled roughly every 18 months<br />
for the past several decades<br />
10,000<br />
1,000<br />
Logic transistors<br />
per chip<br />
(in millions)<br />
Note:<br />
logarithmic scale<br />
100<br />
10<br />
1<br />
0.1<br />
0.01<br />
0.001<br />
1981<br />
1983<br />
1985<br />
1987<br />
1989<br />
1991<br />
1993<br />
1995<br />
1997<br />
1999<br />
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2003<br />
2005<br />
2007<br />
2009<br />
Embedded Systems Design: A Unified<br />
<strong>Hardware</strong>/<strong>Software</strong> <strong>Introduction</strong>, (c) 2000 Vahid/Givargis<br />
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