Processor/Architecture Options and Comparisons

We have the following low power architectures available to us:

• Intel x86
  • Atom

• ARM
  • Cortex A Series
    • Cortex A5
    • Cortex A8
      • BeagleBoard
    • Cortex A9
      • NVIDIA Tegra2 with ULP GPU
    • Cortex A15
  • Cortex R Series
  • Cortex M Series
  • Classic ARM
    • ARM7
    • ARM9
    • ARM11

• Atmel AVR Microcontrollers
  • 32 Bit AVR UC3
  • 8/16 Bit AVR xMEGA
  • 8 Bit Mega AVR
  • 8 Bit Tiny AVR

• FPGA
  • Xilinx Family
  • Altera Family

Comparisons

A preliminary device comparison list by Shaw: Devices