20 Jul
2016
20 Jul
'16
12:29 p.m.
On Jul 20, 2016, at 3:02 PM, Liam Proven <lproven
at gmail.com> wrote:
...
I think it's fair to say that ARM was a relatively early RISC
implementation *in term of single chip processors*, that it was
remarkably simple compared to others of that time (as in, smaller,
more reduced, fewer transistors, etc.), that its power consumption
always was remarkably low and its performance, for its first decade or
so, remarkably high.
I don't remember the earlier ARM designs, but it was my impression that DEC's
StrongARM was the one that made really large strides in low power (especially power per
MHz of clock speed). Interestingly enough, StrongARM was one of the few (and the first?)
independent designs; it used the ARM architecture specification but not the actual logic
design as others did.
paul