Embedded control problems, Thumb, and the ARM7TDMI

1 January 1995

journal article
Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Micro

Vol. 15 (5) , 22-30
https://doi.org/10.1109/40.464580

Abstract

This article discusses an architectural innovation from ARM known as Thumb. High-end embedded control applications such as cell-phones, disk drives, and modems are demanding more performance from their controllers whilst still requiring low costs. By implementing a second "compressed" instruction set, Thumb reduces RISC code size and hence provides 32-bit ARM RISC performance at 8/16-bit system cost.The article starts with a description of the problems of embedded control and then discusses the Thumb solution and its implementation. Typical application areas and competitive benchmarking are also covered.

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