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== BCM2835

The BCM2835 is the Broadcom chip used in the Raspberry Pi 1 Models A, A+, B, B+, the Raspberry Pi Zero, the Raspberry Pi Zero W, and the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 1. Some details of the chip can be found in the https://datasheets.raspberrypi.com/bcm2835/bcm2835-peripherals.pdf[peripheral specification] document. It contains a single-core ARM1176JZF-S processor.

NOTE: The peripheral specification document contains a number of errors. However there is a list of currently known https://elinux.org/BCM2835_datasheet_errata[errata].

Other information regarding the processor can be found in the following documents;

* https://docs.broadcom.com/docs/12358545[GPU documentation] and https://docs.broadcom.com/docs/12358546[open-source driver]
* https://developer.arm.com/documentation/ddi0301[ARM1176JZF-S]