Samsung SoCs naming rules

Kyungmin Park kmpark at infradead.org
Tue Jun 22 01:20:39 EDT 2010


On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 2:05 PM, Kukjin Kim <kgene.kim at samsung.com> wrote:
> Eric Miao wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 6:00 PM, Kyungmin Park <kmpark at infradead.org>
> wrote:
>> > Dear all,
>> >
>> > Now Samsung SoCs doesn't have any special rules include chip name.
>> >
>> > Historically s5pc100 is successor form s3c6410 and this chip from
>> > s3c2410 series.
>> > on the other hand, s5pc110 (cortex a8) and s5pc64xx (armv6) is
>> > different from previous chips.
>>
>> Don't be shy, Samsung is not the only vendor messes the naming of their
>> SoCs. Marvell might have done a better job on this :-)
>>
>> >
>> > So it's not good idea grouping with the prefix. e.g., s5p series. and
>> > the reason to create the samsung.
>> >
>>
>> My guess is your s5p will focus more on Cortex-A8 (or A9 possibly),
>> even with subsequent processors. And only s5pc100 is an exception,
>> that's fine, you can still put s5pc100 into mach-s3c6410, and people
>> will know it's actually closer to s3c6410. And other SoCs will share the
>> common s5p prefix.
>
> Hi Eric,
>
> Actually, S5P does not focus on only Cortex-A8 or -A9.
> The S5P6440 and S5P6442 which have ARM11 core are S5P series in Samsung
> SoCs, too.
>
> Besides, other S5P SoC which has ARM11 core will be produced.

Then what's base IPs? I mean which cpu either s3c6410 or s5p6440 are similar?

>
> And S5PC100 is Cortex-A8 SoC, the architecture is different from S3C6410.

I can't tell the cpu core. In the view of IPs. it's similar. e.g.,
which 3D core used at 6410 and c100?
Does it same as c110?

Thank you,
Kyungmin Park



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