ARM architecture and example Processor

 

ARM architecture and example Processor

Architecture	Description	Sample Processor
4	Armv4 without thumb	SA-1100
4T	Armv4 with thumb	ARM7TDMI, arm9tdmi, arm720t, arm740t, ARM920T, arm922t, arm940t, sc100
5T	Armv5 with thumb and interactive operations
5TE	Armv5 with thumb, interactive operations, DSP multiplication, and dual-word commands	Arm9e, ARM946E-S, ARM966E-S
5TEJ	Armv5 with thumb, interactive operations, DSP multiplication, dual-word commands, and jazelle Extension	ARM926EJ-S, ARM1026EJ-S, sc200
6	Armv6 with thumb, interactive operations, DSP multiplication, dual-word commands, unaligned and mixed-end support, jazelle extension, and multimedia Extension	ARM1136J-S, ARM1136JF-S
6-M	Armv6 microcontroller specification, with only thumb and added processor status commands	Cortex-M1 with no operating system extensions
6S-M	Armv6 microcontroller specification, with only thumb and added processor status commands and operating system extensions	Cortex-M1 with OS extensions
6K	Armv6 with SMP Extension	Mpcore
6T2	Armv6 with thumb-2	ARM1156T2-S, ARM1156T2F-S
6Z	Armv6 with security extensions	ARM1176JZF-S, ARM1176JZ-S
7	Armv7 with only thumb-2 and no hardware Divisor
7-A	Armv7 application specification that supports virtual MMU-based memory systems with arm, thumb-2 and Thumb-2EE instruction sets, DSP support, and 32-bit SIMD support	Cortex-A8, Cortex-A9
7-R	Armv7 real-time specification, with arm, thumb-2, DSP support and 32-bit SIMD support	Cortex-R4, Cortex-R4F
7-M	Armv7 microcontroller specification, with only thumb-2 and hardware delimiters	Cortex-M3, sc300
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Note

Armv7 is not the actual ARM architecture, specifically refers to all ARMv7-A, ARMv7-R and ARMv7-M architecture has the function.