History

a StrongARM was the collaborative task between DEC & ARM to produce a sooner CPU according to (but not completely compatible by using) the existent ARM line. A StrongARM was designed to location a upper-prevent of a online-power embedded market, in which users requisite further performance than the ARM may deliver when existence suspire to assume further external trend lines. Targets were equipment like freshly personal digital assistants and set-top boxes.

A plan was install around 1995, & quickly delivered their foremost project, a SA-100. This was immediately incorporated into recently versions of the Apple Newton as well as a number of more products.

Digital Semiconductor, DEC's chip section, wwhen late sold to Intel as the portion of a suit award. Intel utilized a StrongARM to replenish their ailing line of RISC processors, a i860 and i960. Now a project has been replaced per Intel XScale.

Description

the StrongARM personal come sooner versions of the existent ARM processors using a somewhat different instruction set. Clocked at 206MHz it may perform as much as 235 MIPS (1.Xiv MIPS/MHz). It stand limited software system compatibility by having the "real" ARM families due to their separate caches for information & videos, which stimulates self-modifying code to fail (which, admittedly, is fairly uncommon).

A SA-100 wwhen a number 1 member of a personal, updated as the SA-110 so SA-1110.

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