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 communications interactive television and set-top products video games and multimediaedutainment systems wITh realistic imaging, motion and sound and 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)