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> Pretty much nobody uses the ARM reference designs except as an early prototyping target. This isn't true. The majority of ARM based SoCs today use the Cortex
by als0 7y ago
> Pretty much nobody uses the ARM reference designs except as an early prototyping target.
This isn't true. The majority of ARM based SoCs today use the Cortex or Neoverse reference designs from ARM. Today there are only a few handful of vendors who fully develop their own core, such as Cavium, Apple, and Ampere.
- monocasa 7y agoThere's a difference between ARM reference designs for SoCs (the topic in question) and ARM's designs for their CPU cores. In the context of reference designs, you see stuff like the ARM Juno designs. I've seen people (very very rarely) just drop those whole designs into their boards. But, like I said, almost nobody uses them except as a prototyping target.
- als0 7y agoI think grandparent comment was referring to the CPU part not whole SoC. Arm has never sold entire SoC beyond a limited number of test chips. Juno is a test/evaluation chip only.