• NEON: Cortex A7 is 4 times slower than Cortex A8 ?

    I'm seeing Cortex-A7 cycle-timing table here :

    http://hardwarebug.org/2014/05/15/cortex-a7-instruction-cycle-timings/


    For example, 

    VADD.F32 Dd, Dn, Dm takes 2 cycles

    VADD.F32 Qd, Qn, Qm takes 4 cycles

    same goes for VMUL..

    Is this really the case…

  • Question about accumulator word length in A8 core

    Hi,

    I have used some 32-bit microprocessor cores (non-ARM), which has a long word-length accumulator for some DSP operations, to avoid over-flow etc. After I check A8 core document, it is a surprise that I do not see any about this specification. It looks…

  • How to enable Neon in cortex A8?

    Hi,

          I am using beaglebone which has the processor TI Sitara AM335X. I want to make use of Neon coprcessor for my project, To enable neon, I have to follow these commands. But I can't access these registers ( especially FPEXC…

  • De-merits in using Cortex A9 for single core processor

    Hi Experts,

    A8 is meant for single core and A9 is for multi-core based.

    Consider in case of SoC is build with single core of A9 and A8 how we could compare both in terms of some metrics/parameters like power/speed ?