28 Facts About ARM architecture

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However, ARM architecture processors are used for desktops and servers, including the world's fastest supercomputer from 2020 to 2022.

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The ARM architecture design added special vector-like memory access instructions, the "S-cycles", that could be used to fill or save multiple registers in a single page using page mode.

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The first samples of ARM architecture silicon worked properly when first received and tested on 26 April 1985.

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The ARM architecture2 had a transistor count of just 30,000, compared to Motorola's six-year-older 68000 model with around 68,000.

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Successor, ARM architecture3, was produced with a 4 KB cache, which further improved performance.

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6.

Apple used the ARM architecture6-based ARM architecture610 as the basis for their Apple Newton PDA.

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7.

In 2011, the 32-bit ARM architecture was the most widely used architecture in mobile devices and the most popular 32-bit one in embedded systems.

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In 2013,10 billion were produced and "ARM architecture-based chips are found in nearly 60 percent of the world's mobile devices".

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9.

In February 2016, ARM architecture announced the Built on ARM architecture Cortex Technology licence, often shortened to Built on Cortex licence.

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10.

Companies that have designed cores that implement an ARM architecture include Apple, AppliedMicro, Broadcom, Cavium, Digital Equipment Corporation, Intel, Nvidia, Qualcomm, Samsung Electronics, Fujitsu, and NUVIA Inc.

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ARM architecture cores are used in a number of products, particularly PDAs and smartphones.

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ARM architecture chips are used in Raspberry Pi, BeagleBoard, BeagleBone, PandaBoard, and other single-board computers, because they are very small, inexpensive, and consume very little power.

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13.

The architecture has evolved over time, and version seven of the architecture, ARMv7, defines three architecture "profiles":.

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Except in the M-profile, the 32-bit ARM architecture specifies several CPU modes, depending on the implemented architecture features.

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Original ARM architecture implementation was hardwired without microcode, like the much simpler 8-bit 6502 processor used in prior Acorn microcomputers.

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Almost every ARM architecture instruction has a conditional execution feature called predication, which is implemented with a 4-bit condition code selector.

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Higher-performance designs, such as the ARM architecture9, have deeper pipelines: Cortex-A8 has thirteen stages.

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18.

The difference between the ARM architecture7DI and ARM architecture7DMI cores, for example, was an improved multiplier; hence the added "M".

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19.

ARM architecture provides a non-intrusive way of extending the instruction set using "coprocessors" that can be addressed using MCR, MRC, MRRC, MCRR, and similar instructions.

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20.

ARMv7 architecture defines basic debug facilities at an architectural level.

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21.

The space saving comes from making some of the instruction operands implicit and limiting the number of possibilities compared to the ARM architecture instructions executed in the ARM architecture instruction set state.

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22.

The VFP ARM architecture was intended to support execution of short "vector mode" instructions but these operated on each vector element sequentially and thus did not offer the performance of true single instruction, multiple data vector parallelism.

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23.

Some devices such as the ARM architecture Cortex-A8 have a cut-down VFPLite module instead of a full VFP module, and require roughly ten times more clock cycles per float operation.

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24.

In Debian Linux and derivatives such as Ubuntu and Linux Mint, armhf refers to the ARMv7 architecture including the additional VFP3-D16 floating-point hardware extension above.

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25.

Typical applications include DRM functionality for controlling the use of media on ARM architecture-based devices, and preventing any unapproved use of the device.

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26.

ARM architecture provides a reference stack of secure world code in the form of Trusted Firmware for M and PSA Certified.

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27.

ARM architecture announced their Cortex-A53 and Cortex-A57 cores on 30 October 2012.

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28.

Windows applications recompiled for ARM architecture and linked with Winelib, from the Wine project, can run on 32-bit or 64-bit ARM architecture in Linux, FreeBSD, or other compatible operating systems.

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