How do Smartphone CPUs Work? || Inside the System on a Chip
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Published 2020-11-23
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In this video we explore the primary processor or the System on a Chip or SoC which is essentially the brain of your smartphone. We'll explore the different sections of the SoC and then see how data moves around. Next, we'll explore what happens when you take a picture, and how the SoC processes this data. Following that, we'll take a look at the CPU section, and finally, we'll see how these SoC are designed and manufactured.
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Voice Over- Phil Lee
Table of Contents:
00:00 - The Magic of the SoC
01:13 - Layout of this Episode
02:07 - Notes & Details of the SoC
05:15 - All the Sections of the System on a Chip
08:47 - Processing an Image on the SoC
15:54 - Thank you Gerber Labs
16:40 - Inside the CPU Block
18:59 - Designing and Manufacturing the System on a Chip
22:41 - What it looks like form a nanoscopic view
23:38 - Wrap-up
Key Branches from this video are: Microchips, CPUs, Integrated Circuits,
Erratum:
12min 10sec- Enligsh should be English! Ugh such a blunder. Maybe it's a test to see who reads the footnotes. And then another test to see who reads the erratum...
Animation built using Blender 2.90.1 www.blender.org/
Post with Adobe Premiere Pro
Model References: Blend Swap: Yohello
Book References:
Abderazek, Ben Abdallah. Advanced Multicore System-On-Chip, Architecture, on-Chip Network, Design. Springer
ARM, Arm Cortex-177 Core Technical Reference Manual Revisions r1p1
Birger, Maxim. Snapdragon Platforms overview feat. MSM7x30 chipset.
Codrescu, Lucian. Qualcomm Hexagon DSP: An Architecture optimized for mobile multimedia and communications. Qualcomm Technologies
Pulli, Kari. VP Computational Imaging Light. Camera Processing Pipeline
Santanu, Kundu. Santanu, Chattopadhyay. Network-On-Chip. CRC Press.
Veena S. Chakravarthi. A Practical Approach to VLSI System on Chip (SoC) Design. Springer
Yang, Kent. PoP Details.
Music Attribution:
Sunburst, Tobu & Itro is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution License
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Tech Insights, Apple iPhone 11 Pro Max Teardown: www.techinsights.com/blog/apple-iphone-11-pro-max-…
Anand Tech www.anandtech.com/
Die Photos from Birdman 86, Pauli Rautakorpi: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:ListFiles/Birdm…
Wiki Chips: en.wikichip.org/wiki/apple/ax/a12
Processor Die Photos: www.qdpma.com/CPU/CPU.html
Wikipedia contributors. "System on A Chip" "ARM" "Samsung Electronics." "ARM Architecture" "Reduced Instruction Set Computer" "Dynamic Random Access Memory" "Semiconductor device fabrication" "Color Depth" Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, Visited November 2020
Model Attribution: Blend Swap: Clock Creator Yohello
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All Comments (21)
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It would be greatly appreciated if you could take a quick second and tell us what you think or provide feedback on the video. Was it too complicated or was a specific section confusing? What about the pace of the video? Was a section too slow or did it move too fast? This feedback is extremely useful and it helps us improve on future videos! So, thank you!
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I cant believe im watching this for free
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This is so detailed. The quality of this video maan... This is unbelievable that these videos are completely free, and how underrated the channel is.
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As a microelectronics Engineering graduate student, I really appreciate how simple and concise this video is, despite the fact that it explains YEARS worth of advanced Engineering classes.
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I find your videos fascinating. I'm a long-retired old-school computer engineer, that maintained large mainframe systems which were implemented with transistor gates and logic. These SOC designs remind me of a room full of computer modules wired together with coax cables that I used to maintain. The amount of miniaturization and lowering of costs is staggering. I am proud to have been a part of it and to see where engineering and manufacturing have gone. To you young engineers, keep it going as we're still nowhere near our human potential.
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Yo why this channel is so underrated it The depth every single video he makes is astounding and it was made beautifully
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As a computer engineer involved in both SOC and FW implementation for over 3 decades, I am still blown away when you look holistically at what is built. And this only covers the Edge device let alone the communication bits, the flash memory (other videos discussing that amazing technology) , the cellular network, data network including undersea cables, the hyperscaler data centers. It really is beyond a single person’s comprehension. Well maybe except for you. Thank you for sharing not only your awesome research, but your graphics and data visualization and story telling skills. You truly are a gift to our world. Thank you so much!!
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This is something on extraordinary level...Being an chip design engineer I am really shocked to see the accurate detailing of your content. Hats of to you sir...
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I'll certainly treat my smartphone with reverence after seeing this. I had no idea there was so much going on inside my cellphone. It's the kind of thing you don't think about unless something's not working properly. Whoever put this video together did an excellent job. It was instructional without being overly technical. It's amazing how fast these computer achievements happened. Only 24 years after the invention of the transistor, Intel introduced the 4-bit 4004 with 2,300 random logic transistors. Now we're using 64-bit multi-core processors with billions of transistors. I'm 65 now and when I was younger I thought the quick rate of our technical advancements was a great thing, but as I got older I started realizing that maybe we're not ready for some of these advancements.
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That size-comparison to a grain of table salt is mind blowing. It puts things in perspective.
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That was amazing and fascinating ! Those illustrations must have taken months to complete.. hope this video goes viral !
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These videos have been excellent! Thank you so much for the time end effort put forward in them! Many videos don't get as specific or detailed as I want and your videos always do! Keep up the great work.
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You appeared like an angel who shown such complex info so easily and in such understandable fashion.. I am really enjoying creators comments and your content.. It's a humble request.. please keep making such videos.. Being an electronics engineer myself, I am definitely gonna support this channel and share your videos alot with my friends.. thanks alot for doing this👏👏
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a whole semester's long lectures on "Micro Processors" compressed in 25minutes. plus its even more detailed. words cant thank you enough for this great knowledge.
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THIS is how ALL education should be!!! Incredible accurate detail = SUPREME CLARITY
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It is so satisfying to see the detail, like all the sections of the SoC. Feels like being correct overrules being simplistic, love it.
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Love the high quality graphics and everything is explained so well. I have only seen a couple of these videos so far and I have learned so much. Thank you!
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The only YouTube channel that provides the fundamental knowledge of electronics. Keep it up👍
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Honestly can't image the efforts one had to put in to make such a detailed video. Kudos!
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This is the best video I have ever seen in YouTube, thank you so much for providing such a wonderful content for free.
