KNOWING THE NOMENCLATURE OF ARM FAMILY

KNOWING THE NOMENCLATURE OF ARM FAMILY

n      ARM-XYZ  TDMI  EJF- S

X -  series of ARM processor

Y -  Support of CACHE MEMORY

Z – Support of Memory management and Memory protection Unit.

T – Thumb architecture Support of 16 bit instruction.

D – Debugger support

M – Fast Multiplier

I – Embedded ICE - In Circuit Emulator

E – Embedded Trace Macro-cell.

J – Jazelle Instruction set / Java byte code, support to java programs

F – Floating point co-processor

S – Synthesizable version means the ARM is a set of software instruction engine that can be compiled on a suitable compiler.