• Cortex-A7 pipeline is non-symmetric, what does this attribute mean?

    Cortex-A7 pipeline is non-symmetric, what does this attribute mean?

    My understand is that cortex-A7 pipeline's five entries does not have the same two, in the contrary, the cortex-A15 have the two entries are the same.

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  • How to measure program execution time in ARM Cortex-A53 processor?

    Hi,

    I was using following method to read clock in cortex-a15:

           static void readticks(unsigned int *result)

            {

                struct timeval t;…

  • To run library functions on arm a53 core

    Hello experts,
    I am working on a53 core in which I am not able to run string library functions like memset, memcpy etc. I have included the string.h library also but it is generation an exception. The same code works on the a15 core without any modification…

  • ARM Shares Updated Cortex-A53/A57 Performance Expectations

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    With the first Cortex-A53 based SoCs due to ship in the coming months, and Cortex-A57 based designs to follow early next year, ARM gave us a quick update on performance expectations for both cores. Given the timing of both designs we'll see a combination…

  • A Walk Through the Cortex-A Mobile Roadmap

    Chinese Version中文版

    Introduction

    The ARM Cortex-A mobile application processor product line spans several generations and three main product tiers. Developers and SoC designers experienced with one or more of the newer ARM ARM Processors benefit from an…

  • High efficiency, midrange or high performance Cortex-A - What is the difference?

    A question that I am asked many times is – what is the fundamental difference between the high efficiency, mid range and the high performance application processors in the ARM Cortex family?

    The simple answer to this is – the power budget…

  • AMBA 4 ACE and Hardware Cache Coherency - Top 5 Questions

    I thought I'd post a short blog post about commonly asked questions on AMBA 4 ACE and system coherency.

    What does ACE mean?

    ACE is the "AXI Coherency Extensions" introduced with the AMBA 4 specification released in 2011. For those of you thinking "What…

  • ARMv8 Architecture, The whys & wherefores of AArch64 - 64-bit Applications

    It’s been a year since ARM announced the first details of the new ARMv8 architecture with its support for 64-bit virtual addressing. This comparatively early announcement allowed the architecture to be discussed publically, and more importantly…

  • big.LITTLE and AMBA 4 ACE keep your cache warm and avoid flushes

    Updated 29th October 2013


    High performance and power efficiency are critical to the latest mobile devices, and AMBA® 4 ACE™ is a fundamental technology supporting ARM's big.LITTLE processing. In case you missed the announcements, the big…