Motorola DragonBall Microprocessor

Motorola/Freescale Semiconductor's DragonBall is microprocessor design based on the famous 68000 core, but implemented as an all-in-one low-power solution for handheld computer use. It was designed by Motorola based in Hong Kong. Image File history File links Description: Motorola Dragonball Microprocessor Source: http://www. ... Image File history File links Description: Motorola Dragonball Microprocessor Source: http://www. ... Motorola (NYSE: MOT) is a global communications company based in Schaumburg, Illinois, a Chicago suburb. ... American corporation Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. ... Microprocessors, including an Intel 80486DX2 and an Intel 80386. ... The Motorola 680x0, 0x0, m68k, or 68k family of CISC microprocessor CPU chips were 32-bit from the start, and were the primary competition for the Intel x86 family of chips. ... Handheld devices (also known as handhelds) are pocket-sized computing devices that are rapidly gaining popularity as the access to information in every walk of life becomes more and more mission critical. ...

The DragonBall's only major design win was in earlier versions of the Palm Computing platform; from Palm OS 5 on it has been superseded by ARM-based XScale processors from Intel. The processor is also used in the AlphaSmart line of portable word processors. Examples include the Dana and Dana Wireless. Categories: Corporation stubs | Electronics companies of the United States | Defunct computer companies of the United States ... ARM may stand for: Most likely: Adjustable rate mortgage Advanced RISC Machines, now ARM Ltd ARM architecture CPU design or one of its derivatives developed by ARM Ltd (originally called The Acorn RISC Machine) Armenia, ISO 3166-1 3-letter country code and abbreviation Artificial rupture of membranes (see amniotic... XScale is Intels name for their line of StrongARM-based RISC microprocessors and microcontrollers, which they aquired from DECs Digital Semiconductor division as the side-effect of a lawsuit between the two companies. ... Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC, SEHK: 4335), founded in 1968 as Integrated Electronics Corporation, is a U.S.-based multinational corporation that is best known for designing and manufacturing microprocessors and specialized integrated circuits. ... The AlphaSmart is a brand of small, relatively simple mini-computers manufactured by AlphaSmart Neo // Background The AlphaSmart is a keyboarding device that enables a person to work on the go, much like a laptop computer, but is strictly for word processing only, as it functions essentially like a simple... A word processor (also more formally known as a document preparation system) is a computer application used for the production (including composition, editing, formatting, and possibly printing) of any sort of viewable or printed material. ...

The processor is capable of speeds of up to 16.67 MHz and can run up to 2.7 MIPS (million instructions per second), for the base and EZ model. It was extended to 37 MHz, 3.5 MIPS for the VZ model, and 66 MHz, 10.8 MIPS for Super VZ.

It is a 16-bit processor with 32-bit internal and external address bus (24-bit external address bus for EZ and VZ variants). It has many built-in functions, like a color and grayscale display controller, PC speaker sound, serial port with UART and IRDA support, UART bootstrap, real time clock, is able to directly access DRAM, Flash ROM, and mask ROM, and has built-in support for touch screens.

It is an all-in-one computer on a chip; before the dragonballEZ, Palm handhelds had twice as many ICs (integrated circuits).

	List of Motorola/Freescale microprocessors
	The 6800 family : 6809 (see also: Hitachi 6309) 68000 family : 68000 | 68008 | 68010 | 68012 | 68020 | 68030 | 68040 | 68060 | ColdFire | DragonBall Pre-PowerPC RISC : 88000 Floating-point coprocessors : 68881, 68882 PowerPC family (as part of AIM) : PPC 7XX range (aka "PowerPC G3") | PPC 7XXX range (aka "PowerPC G4")