A collaborative project between {Digital Equipment Corporation} and {Advanced RISC Machines} Ltd. (ARM) announced on 1995-02-06 licensing the ARMRISC architecture to Digital Semiconductor for the development of high-performance, low power microprocessors.The StrongARM family of 32-bit RISC products developed under the agreement are faster versions of the existing ARM processors with a somewhat different instruction set.They are targetted at applications such as next-generation personal digital assistants with improved user interfaces and communicationsinteractive television and set-top productsvideo games and multimediaedutainment systems with realistic imaging, motion and soundand digital imaging, including low cost digital image capture and photo-quality scanning and printing.The StrongARM family has limited software compatibility with the ARM6, ARM7 and ARM8 families due to its separate caches for data and instructions which causes self-modifying code to fail.The SA-110 is the first member of the family.(1998-09-07)