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Chapter 17
Background information
This chapter provides background information about JTAG and ARM. The ARM7 and
ARM9 architecture is based on
Reduced Instruction Set Computer (RISC) principles.
The instruction set and the related decode mechanism are greatly simplified com-
pared with microprogrammed
Complex Instruction Set Computer (CISC).