Product category: Microprocessors, Microcontrollers and DSPs
News Release from: ARM | Subject: ARMv7
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 08 March 2005
New processor architecture comes in
three flavours
ARM has disclosed technical details of its new ARMv7 architecture at the Embedded Systems Conference in San Francisco.
ARM has disclosed technical details of its new ARMv7 architecture at the Embedded Systems Conference in San Francisco The new ARMv7 architecture defines three distinct processor profiles: the A profile for sophisticated, virtual memory-based OS and user applications; the R profile for real-time systems; and the M profile optimised for microcontroller and low-cost applications
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 8 Nov 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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