SOC算VLSI里的吗

小白问一下，大家都说VLSI,我看我学校（国内）介绍里，计算机学院和电子科学与技术的老师都做VLSI，计算机学院老师研究的叫SOC，我想知道soc和VLSI是啥关系?还有个问题就是VLSI是不分模电和数电方向？3Q~

soc=system on chip, so it is mainly software. It is included in Embedded System dealing with, for example, how to implement Android on a microprocessor. But VLSI mainly deal with how to implement a chip. Moreover, VLSI is digital circuit. It cares mostly about digital logic, timing analysis, energy consumption and so on. Make sense?

skyrock 发表于 2013-10-22 23:24
soc=system on chip, so it is mainly software. It is included in Embedded System dealing with, for ex ...

非常感谢，解释的很清楚，再问一个问题他们说VLSI分三个 数字电路前端 后端 还有computer architecture， computer architecture指的是什么？

skyrock 发表于 2013-10-22 23:24
soc=system on chip, so it is mainly software. It is included in Embedded System dealing with, for ex ...

别瞎扯啊，soc硬的不能再硬了。soc一般就是指区别于cpu，gpu的把各种ip揉在一块儿的芯片设计。

SOC和VLSI是两回事了。SOC软硬都有，所以ECE和CS的老师会涉及。VLSI就不同了，即使是“软”部分，也是为“硬”服务的，针对的是microarchitecture level以下的设计，2L说的比较详尽了。Computer architecture处于硬件和软件的接口层，下到电路，上到micro architecture和ISA，都得了解，当然主要还是micro architecture 和 ISA level的设计。关于前端后端，你可以这样理解，越接近消费者的，越是前端，越接近这东西背后的物理机理的，就是后端。。