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Architectures and Processors blog Continuing the journey through the Cortex maze...

Continuing the journey through the Cortex maze...

October 17, 2013

Less than one minute read time.

Following on from two earlier articles (Navigating the Cortex Maze and ARMv6-M vs ARMv7-M - Unpacking the Microcontrollers), you might be interested in a new piece on the ARMv7-A architecture and Cortex-A series (ARMv7-A - Power to the People). I hope you find it useful.

Chris

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