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  • Speculative Branching.
    Hi, I am new to ARM Cortex M3 Microprocessors. Can somebody please explain me the speculative branching in layman terms. Thanks in advance.
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  • unaligned data fetch in Cortexa9
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  • MIPS Calculation on ARMv7
    Hi All, I want to measure MIPS(Million Instruction per second, i.e. instruction count per second) on ARMv7 Platforms. What is the procedure for calculating MIPS for ARMv7 platforms? Thanks and Regards...