The ARM9 processor family is built around the ARM9TDMI processor and incorporates the 16-bit Thumb instruction set, which improves code density by as much as 35%. The ARM9 family's comprehensive feature set enables developers to implement leading-edge systems, while delivering considerable savings in chip area, time-to-market, development costs and power consumption. The ARM9 Thumb family includes the ARM920T and ARM922T cached processor macrocells, each of which has been developed to address different application requirements: - - Dual 16k caches for applications running Symbian OS, Palm OS, Linux and Windows CE
- - Dual 8k caches for applications running Symbian OS, Palm OS, Linux and Windows CE
Applications
Applications - Next-generation hand-held products
– Videophones, portable communicators, PDAs - Digital consumer products
– Set-top boxes, home gateways, games consoles, MP3 audio, MPEG4 video - Imaging
– Desktop printers, still picture cameras, digital video cameras - Automotive
– Telematic and infotainment systems ARM9 Family- 32-bit RISC processor with ARM® and Thumb® instruction sets
- 5-stage integer pipeline achieves 1.1 MIPS/MHz
- Up to 300 MIPS (Dhrystone 2.1) in a typical 0.13µm process
- Single 32-bit AMBA bus interface
- MMU supporting Windows CE, Symbian OS, Linux, Palm OS ( and )
- Integrated instruction and data caches
- Excellent debug support for SoC designers, including ETM interface
- 8-entry write buffer — avoids stalling the processor when writes to external memory are performed
- Portable to latest 0.18µm, 0.15µm, 0.13µm silicon processes.
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