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
- Integrated level 2 Cache
- 1.9 DMIPS / MHz
- Typical clock speed 1.5 GHz
Chips
- Allwinner A20
- Allwinner A31
- Allwinner A83T
- Allwinner
- Broadcom BCM23550 quad-core HSPA+ Multimedia Processor
- Broadcom BCM2836, designed specifically for Raspberry Pi 2
- Broadcom BCM6846 Broadband SoC
- NXP Semiconductor QorIQ Layerscape LS1
- 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
- Mediatek
- Mediatek
- Mediatek
- Mediatek
- Mediatek MT6589
- Mediatek
- Mstar MSB2531A ARM Cortex A7 32bit 800MHZ
- Qualcomm Snapdragon 200 and Snapdragon 400 MSM8212 and MSM8612, MSM8226, MSM8626 and MSM8926
- Samsung Exynos 5 Octa, big.LITTLE architecture with quad-core Cortex-A7 and quad-core Cortex-A15. Use Imagination Technologies PowerVR SGX544MP3 GPU.
- Samsung Exynos 5 Octa, big.LITTLE architecture with quad-core Cortex-A7 and quad-core Cortex-A15. Use ARM Mali-T628MP6 GPU.
- STMicroelectronics
- STMicroelectronics
- ASPEED BMC