Re: StrongARM chip in Technology Guardian this week.

In article <gDoIj.19345$4f4.5260@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Rob Kendrick
<URL:mailto:nntp@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Tue, 01 Apr 2008 11:01:07 +0100, Chris Evans wrote:

I thought copyright was the issue not patents.

No. Given the StrongARM contained nothing of ARM's creation (not even
the instruction set)

I don't follow, if the instruction set isn't the same how does the same 'code'
work on an ARM 710 and a StrongARM?

I've just found a copy of the press release from Digital & ARM on
c.s.a.announce 5.2.1996 it says:

* The SA-110 microprocessor is the first member of the
* StrongARM family resulting from the architecture license
* agreement between Digital and Advanced RISC Machines Ltd.
* (ARM), developer of the ARM 32-bit RISC architecture.
* "Combining ARM's low-power architecture with Digital's high-
* performance processor design expertise and CMOS process
* leadership has created a new paradigm for embedded consumer
* electronics products -- supercomputer class performance on
* AA batteries," said Robin Saxby, president and CEO,
* Advanced RISC Machines Ltd.
.....

So how does Architecture, instruction set & code all relate to each other?



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