ARM Cortex A9 - Chapter 3 Programmers Model; 3.1 About the programmers model

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Chapter 3
Programmers Model
This chapter describes the processor registers and provides information for programming the
processor. It contains the following sections:
• About the programmers model on page 3-2
• ThumbEE architecture on page 3-3
• The Jazelle Extension on page 3-4
• Advanced SIMD architecture on page 3-5
• Security Extensions architecture on page 3-6
• Multiprocessing Extensions on page 3-7
• Modes of operation and execution on page 3-8
• Memory model on page 3-9
• Addresses in the Cortex-A9 processor on page 3-10.