Editing Embedded system (section)

====ASIC and FPGA SoC solutions====
A [[system on a chip]] (SoC) contains a complete system - consisting of multiple processors, multipliers, caches, even different types of memory and commonly various peripherals like interfaces for wired or wireless communication on a single chip. Often graphics processing units (GPU) and DSPs are included such chips. SoCs can be implemented as an [[application-specific integrated circuit]] (ASIC) or using a [[field-programmable gate array]] (FPGA) which typically can be reconfigured.

ASIC implementations are common for very-high-volume embedded systems like [[mobile phone]]s and [[smartphone]]s. ASIC or FPGA implementations may be used for not-so-high-volume embedded systems with special needs in kind of signal processing performance, interfaces and reliability, like in avionics.