ARM offers a wide range of processor cores based on a common architecture, that deliver high performance together with low power consumption and system cost.

Processor Overview

Embedded Processors
ARM Cortex-A8
ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore
ARM Cortex-A9 Single Core Processor
ARM1020E
ARM1022E
ARM1026EJ-S
ARM11 MPCore
ARM1136J(F)-S
ARM1176JZ(F)-S
ARM720T
ARM920T
ARM922T
ARM926EJ-S

Application Processors
ARM Cortex-M1
ARM Cortex-M3
ARM Cortex-R4(F)
ARM1026EJ-S
ARM1156T2(F)-S
ARM7EJ-S
ARM7TDMI
ARM7TDMI-S
ARM946E-S
ARM966E-S
ARM968E-S
ARM996HS

Secure Cores
SecurCore SC100
SecurCore SC200

Processor Families

ARM7 is best seller in 32bit low power, low cost embedded processors.

ARM9 is mainstream in next generation mobile devices.

ARM9E is DSP and Java Enhanced ARM9 processor, floating point.

ARM10E is high performance and low power consumption.

ARM11 is high performance processors, with multiple cores.

ARM Cortex is new generation ARM cores with Thumb-2 instructions. (A/R/M families)

ARM SecureCore Embedded cores for secure applications.

ARM Data Engines is software core for data processing.

XScale is high performance ARM cores from Intel, via acquiring DEC StrongARM, now this division was sold to Marvell, but Intel still use XScale in many CE products such as CE2110. Intel XScale site is here.

Architecture

The ARM ISA is constantly improving to meet the increasing demands of leading edge applications developers, while retaining the backwards compatibility necessary to protect investment in software development. It covers ARMv4, ARMv4T, ARMv5TE, ATMv5TEJ, ARMv6, ARMv7, NEON Media Acceleration, VFP, ARM TrustZone, Thumb-2, Debug and Trace, AMBA, ARM IEM and other technologies.