ARM710

ARM710

(processor)A 32-bit RISC microprocessor based on theARM7 processor core designed by Advanced RISC MachinesLtd. The A710 is the successor to the ARM610 processor. Itwas released in July 1994 by VLSI Technology Inc.

The ARM710 can run at 40MHz (fastest sample 55MHz) dissipating500mW with a 5V supply or 25MHz with 3.3V supply. It has an 8kilobyte on-chip cache, memory management unit and write buffer.

The ARM700 and ARM710 processors represent a significantimprovement over the ARM610 processors. They have a highermaximum clock speed and a number of architectural improvementssuch as double the size of internal cache, this means thatmore of any process can be executed internally withoutaccessing the (relatively) slow external memory. Otherimprovements are an improved write buffer and an enlargedTranslation Lookaside Buffer in the MMU. All of theseimprovements increase the performance of the system anddeliver more real performance than a simple comparison ofclock speeds would indicate.

The ARM710 has been optimised for integer performance. TheFPA11 floating point coprocessor has a peak throughput ofup to 5 MFLOPS and achieves an average throughput in excessof 3 MFLOPS for a range of calculations.