VAR-320SBC Reference Guide
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3. Components
3.1. MONAHANS-P CPU
3.1.1.
Overview
The PXA320 processor is an integrated system-on-a-chip microprocessor for high-performance,
low-power portable handheld and handset devices. It incorporates the Intel XScale® micro
architecture with on-the-fly voltage and frequency scaling and sophisticated power management
to provide industry leading MIPS/mW performance across its wide range of operating frequencies.
The PXA320 processor complies with the ARM* Architecture V5TE instruction set (excluding
floating point instructions) and follows the ARM* programmer’s model. The PXA320 processor
Multimedia coprocessor provides enhanced Intel® Wireless MMX 2 instructions to accelerate
audio and video processing.