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To: Larry Loeb who wrote (28199)	7/13/1998 4:08:00 PM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 33344

Larry - Re: "the differences between the ARM core and StrongARM, .." As you noted, NSM has licensed a CORE version of ARM, the ARM7TDMI. This CORE is a variant of the ARM7 (as is Strong ARM), but I think it has the THUMB extensions as well as additional FIXED POINT mathematical capability -including a fast MULTIPLY- to lend itself to DSP-type applications. As a core, NSM will have to actually DESIGN a product using that core, and including whatever additional features it chooses for its intended market - I/O processing, analog I/O, caches, graphics support, etc. Intel also has a license to the ARM7 - and I believe - follow-on variants. However, Intel also OWNS the StrongARM-1100 and StrongARM-110 and StrongARM-1500 PRODUCTS, which it bought from DIgital along with Digital's fabs. The StrongARM architectures do not have the "THUMB" extension nor the fast fixed-point arithmetical enhancements. The THUMB extensions maximize the density of code written for the ARM processors, alleviating some of the large software code (typical of RISC CPUs) by incorporating some more "COMPLEX"-type of instructions. Paul