Appendix C

Addition of 16-bit Thumb® Instructions in Recent Architecture Versions

Most of the 16-bit Thumb® instructions are available in architecture v4T (ARM7TDMI™). However, a number of them are added in architecture v5, v6, and v7. Table C.1 lists these instructions.

Table C.1

Change of 16-bit Instruction Support in Various Recent ARM® Architecture Versions

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Note 1: SEV, WFE and WFI executes as NOP in v6T2 (First implementation of Thumb 2 on ARM1156T2(F)-S™)

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