Timeline for Application, Embedded, and Real time processors
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| Apr 25 at 22:17 | comment | added | mlvljr | Making this 0, shame on those -1 folks. Cheers :) | |
| Mar 28, 2021 at 2:14 | comment | added | D.A.S. | M33 beats the M7 | |
| Mar 28, 2021 at 2:01 | comment | added | DKNguyen | @syntax Understood | |
| Mar 28, 2021 at 1:44 | history | edited | crossroad | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 28, 2021 at 1:42 | answer | added | D.A.S. | timeline score: 1 | |
| Mar 28, 2021 at 1:34 | comment | added | crossroad | I do not mean to say Cortex-M7 is more powerful than Cortex-A. I'm well aware of the high performance of Cortex-A. I was referring to Cortex-M7 being one of the more powerful in the class of Cortex-M. All I needed to know was that it's just marketing speak, I thought there might've been more to it. I can program just fine and have made plenty of working boards | |
| Mar 28, 2021 at 0:35 | comment | added | DKNguyen | It's just marketing speak. Non-technical classifications so don't hold too much stock in them or the fact that things aren't clearly defined. Cortex-M is simple like your toaster or something hidden inside your car (embedded). Cortex-A is application like your smartphone running an OS with applications and a screen with fancy graphics. Marketing sometimes steps on its own toes and this is what happened with Cortex-R. They aren't making new R-series anyways so just ignore the fact that they exist. | |
| Mar 28, 2021 at 0:18 | comment | added | jonk | For now, just consider -M, -A, and -R as market-speak designed to herd folks in one direction or another based upon very broad self-categorizations. If you need virtual memory spaces on a per-process basis and can explain exactly why, then you are in the market for something that provides that particular feature. Otherwise, a marketer will tell you that you need it and that you should pay extra to get it and you won't know any better and will buy into the propaganda. Better thing is that you know your needs well and find the better fit possible. Ignore the cattle chutes set up by marketers. | |
| Mar 28, 2021 at 0:11 | comment | added | jonk | syntax, I can't begin to count the number of arguments I've seen between informed embedded, application, and real-time programmers over the meaning of "embedded," "application," and "real time." And many of them were quite heated. In a sense, this is a matter of perspective and different people imagine differing factors as important. There are natural demarcations, if you are sufficiently experienced in all of the areas. But it requires many decades of experience (or a super-genius) to see, let alone understand fully, where those natural lines exist and why. So this will be opinion here. | |
| Mar 27, 2021 at 23:47 | comment | added | jsotola | according to wikipedia, Cortex-A has an MMU, which is required by most OS ... that implies that Cortex-A is designed for use in something like a kiosk | |
| Mar 27, 2021 at 23:46 | comment | added | Elliot Alderson | If you visit the ARM site you will find a wealth of information on this topic. It is a very broad topic, however. | |
| Mar 27, 2021 at 23:22 | history | rollback | Transistor |
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| Mar 27, 2021 at 23:21 | history | edited | Transistor | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 27, 2021 at 23:16 | history | asked | crossroad | CC BY-SA 4.0 |