StrongARM

    A collaborative project between Digital Equipment
   Corporation and Advanced RISC Machines Ltd. (ARM) announced
   on 1995-02-06 licensing the ARM RISC architecture to
   Digital Semiconductor for the development of
   high-performance, low power microprocessors.

   The StrongARM family of 32-bit RISC products developed under
   the agreement are faster versions of the existing ARM
   processors with a somewhat different instruction set.  They
   are targetted at applications such as next-generation
   personal digital assistants with improved user interfaces
   and communications; interactive television and set-top
   products; video games and multimedia edutainment systems
   with realistic imaging, motion and sound; and digital imaging,
   including low cost digital image capture and photo-quality
   scanning and printing.

   The StrongARM family has limited software compatibility with
   the ARM6, ARM7 and ARM8 families due to its separate
   caches for data and instructions which causes
   self-modifying code to fail.

   The SA-110 is the first member of the family.

   (1998-09-07)