> aren't the peripherals a bit of a hodge-podge of old this and non-standard that? There are certainly "old" peripherals in the SoC (the UART comes to mind).

> aren't the peripherals a bit of a hodge-podge of old this and non-standard that? There are certainly "old" peripherals in the SoC (the UART comes to mind). There's probably not a lot of norm-busting in this, There are certainly "non-standard" peripherals in the SoC (if by "non-standard" you mean "nobody else has them"). As the article notes, many if not most other folks "just" check off a couple dozen boxes on the ARM PrimeCell Shopping List (plus a few 3p vendors) and stack the resulting blobs together. Going your own way and building major components yourself (and all of the major components, including the fabric / interconnects) is very definitely not the "norm".