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ARM adds to processor roadmap
Duo of Cortex chips imminent
Monday, 30 March 2009, 14:22
BRITISH CHIP SHOP ARM has announced the addition of two new processors to its Fast Models range.
The Cortex-A9 MPCore multicore processor and the Cortex-M3 processor are purportedly designed to enable rapid development and optimisation of software on single and multicore Cortex processor-based virtual platforms. The firm also reckons they can achieve speeds of up to 250MHz to enable real-time execution of software.
Middleware and drivers for platforms based on the new ARM CPUs are available to developers ahead of hardware availability, which is expected to happen mid April. µ
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"The firm also reckons they can achieve speeds of up to 250MHz to enable real-time execution of software".
Software is always executed in "real time". Whether that's fast enough for the user is the subjective.
"The firm also reckons they can achieve speeds of up to 250MHz to enable real-time execution of software"....
Software is always executed in "real time". Whether that's fast enough for the user is subjective.
You should have pointed out that these aren't CPUs. They're clock-accurate simulators of their cores for pre-silicon software testing.
http://www.arm.com/products/DevTools/Models.html
They're just simulators for the cores that will be getting embedded into chips in the next year or two.