27 Facts About ARM family

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ARM is a family of reduced instruction set computer instruction set architectures for computer processors, configured for various environments.

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

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The ARM family 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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4.

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

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5.

The ARM family2 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 family3, was produced with a 4 KB cache, which further improved performance.

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7.

Apple used the ARM family6-based ARM family610 as the basis for their Apple Newton PDA.

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8.

In 2011, the 32-bit ARM family 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 family-based chips are found in nearly 60 percent of the world's mobile devices".

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10.

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

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11.

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

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

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

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

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ARM family includes integer arithmetic operations for add, subtract, and multiply; some versions of the architecture support divide operations.

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

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18.

ARM family processor has features rarely seen in other RISC architectures, such as PC-relative addressing and pre- and post-increment addressing modes.

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Higher-performance designs, such as the ARM family9, have deeper pipelines: Cortex-A8 has thirteen stages.

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20.

The difference between the ARM family7DI and ARM family7DMI cores, for example, was an improved multiplier; hence the added "M".

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21.

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

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23.

Some devices such as the ARM family 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.

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

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25.

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

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26.

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

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27.

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

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