ARM7TDMI

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The ARM7TDMI processor is a 32-bit RISC CPU designed by ARM, and licensed for manufacture by an array of semiconductor companies.

[edit] Specifications

It is a versatile processor designed for mobile devices and other low power electronics. This processor architecture is capable of up to 130 MIPS on a typical 0.13µm process. The ARM7TDMI processor core implements ARM Architecture v4T. The processor supports both 32-bit and 16-bit instructions via the ARM and Thumb instruction sets.

ARM licenses the processor to various semiconductor companies, which designs full chips using the processor design.

[edit] Applications

Perhaps the most common pieces of electronic equipment currently using this processor are:

• iPod from Apple
• Nintendo DS and Game Boy Advance from Nintendo
• Most of Nokia's mobile phone range.
• Lego Mindstorms NXT
• Audio processing in the SEGA Dreamcast
• Sirius Satellite Radio receivers
• iriver portable digital audio players (the H10 uses a chip with this processor)
• Roomba 500 series from iRobot

[edit] External links

• ARM Website
• ARM microcontroller Wiki
• ARM7TDMI Microcontroller Development Resources - header files, schematics, CAD files, etc..
• Source and binaries for running uClinux on the ARM7TDMI
• ARM Microcontroller Development HOWTO - Document describing development environment for ARM7 Microcontrollers on Linux.