StrongARM
<processor> A collaborative project between Digital Equipment Corporation
and Advanced RISC Machines Ltd. (ARM) announced on 1995-02-06 licensing the ARM
RISC architecture to Digital Semiconductor for the development of
high-performance, low power microprocessors.
The StrongARM family of 32-bit RISC products developed under the agreement are
faster versions of the existing ARM processors with a somewhat different
instruction set. They are targetted at applications such as next-generation
personal digital assistants with improved user interfaces and communications;
interactive television and set-top products; video games and multimedia
edutainment systems with realistic imaging, motion and sound; and digital
imaging, including low cost digital image capture and photo-quality scanning and
printing.
The StrongARM family has limited software compatibility with the ARM6, ARM7 and
ARM8 families due to its separate caches for data and instructions which causes
self-modifying code to fail.
The SA-110 is the first member of the family.
(1998-09-07)
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