A Review of ARM Processor Architecture History, Progress and Applications

Muhammad Nabeel Asghar

doi:10.36785/buitems.jaes.446

Abstract

Globally, over 50 billion ARM architecture based embedded chips of 32-bit and 64-bit instruction set architecture are commonly used and produced in quantity perspective since 2014. In our daily life most of the people uses and depends upon a penalty of electrical and automotive devices which have now become an essential part of their daily life. Due to that reason embedded processors are used to build such devices which takes less silicone-space, provides efficient processing and less power.

Highlights

Acorn RISC Machine, later Advanced RISC Machine is widely used reduced instruction set computer (RISC) family of computer processors, system on chip, system on module, smart phones, configured for various environment[1]
In 1990 it was changed to "Advanced RISC Machines" due to incorporated of the company "Advanced RISC Machines Ltd." by the time of Initial Public Offering, Company name was modified to "ARM Holdings" surprisingly Apple was the joint venture partner at that time and has a long history with ARM[2].Which is owned by Japanese tele communions company “Softbank Group”[1]
[12] In order to enhance the performance functions of system a huge area of board is left free in RISC CPU Which brings improvement in cost, power consumption, and heat dissipation[4]

Summary

Introduction

Acorn RISC Machine, later Advanced RISC Machine is widely used reduced instruction set computer (RISC) family of computer processors, system on chip, system on module, smart phones, configured for various environment[1]. More than 95 % mobile devices are using the ARM powered processor[3]. The ARM design has taken some of the features from Berkeley RISC design like a uniform register file load store architecture, 32-bit fixedlength instruction, and 3-address instruction formats[5].ARM architectural licensing provides the facility of designing their own processor cores with the help of instruction set of ARM.

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