ARM Cortex-A7

The ARM Cortex-A7 MPCore is a 32-bit microprocessor core licensed by ARM Holdings implementing the ARMv7-A architecture announced in 2011.

Overview

It has two target applications; firstly as a smaller, simpler, and more power-efficient successor to the Cortex-A8. The other use is in the big.LITTLE architecture, combining one or more A7 cores with one or more Cortex-A15 cores into a heterogeneous system. To do this it is fully feature-compatible with the A15.

Key features of the Cortex-A7 core are: Partial dual-issue, in-order microarchitecture with an 8-stage pipeline NEON SIMD instruction set extension VFPv4 Floating Point Unit Thumb-2 instruction set encoding Jazelle RCT Hardware virtualization Large Page Address Extensions (LPAE) Integrated level 2 Cache (0–1 MB) 1.9 DMIPS / MHz Typical clock speed 1.5 GHz

Chips Several system-on-chips (SoC) have implemented the Cortex-A7 core, including: Allwinner A20 (dual-core A7 + Mali-400 MP2 GPU) Allwinner A31 (quad-core A7 + PowerVR SGX544MP2 GPU) Allwinner A83T (octa-core A7 + PowerVR SGX544 GPU) Allwinner H3(quad-core A7 + Mali-400 MP2 GPU) Broadcom BCM23550 quad-core HSPA+ Multimedia Processor Broadcom BCM2836 (quad-core A7 + VideoCore IV GPU), designed specifically for Raspberry Pi 2 Broadcom BCM6846 (dual-core A7) Broadband SoC NXP Semiconductor (Formerly Freescale) QorIQ Layerscape LS1 (dual-core A7) Freescale i.MX 6 UltraLite HiSilicon K3V3, big.LITTLE architecture with dual-core Cortex-A7 and dual-core Cortex-A15. Use ARM Mali-T658 GPU. Marvell PXA1088 (quad-core A7 + Vivante GC1000) Mediatek MT6570 (dual-core A7 + ARM Mali-400MP1 GPU) Mediatek MT6572 (dual-core A7 + ARM Mali-400MP1 GPU) Mediatek MT6580 (quad-core A7 + ARM Mali-400MP2 GPU) Mediatek MT6582 (quad-core A7 + ARM Mali-400MP2 GPU) Mediatek MT6589 (quad-core A7 + Imagination Technologies PowerVR SGX544 GPU) Mediatek MT6592 (octa-core A7 + ARM Mali-450MP4 GPU) Mstar MSB2531A ARM Cortex A7 32bit 800MHZ Qualcomm Snapdragon 200 and Snapdragon 400 MSM8212 and MSM8612, MSM8226, MSM8626 and MSM8926 (quad core A7 + Adreno 305 GPU) Samsung Exynos 5 Octa (5410), big.LITTLE architecture with quad-core Cortex-A7 and quad-core Cortex-A15. Use Imagination Technologies PowerVR SGX544MP3 GPU. Samsung Exynos 5 Octa (5420), big.LITTLE architecture with quad-core Cortex-A7 and quad-core Cortex-A15. Use ARM Mali-T628MP6 GPU. STMicroelectronics STM32MP13x (single-core A7) STMicroelectronics STM32MP15x (dual-core A7 + M4 + Vivante GPU) ASPEED AST2600 BMC (dual-core A7 + M4)

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