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Cortex-A5 Evaluation boards

Note: This was originally posted on 26th July 2011 at http://forums.arm.com

Hi All,

Is there any evaluation boards available in the market for cortex A-5 ?. I would like to evaluate A-5 performance against A-8. Any pointers suggestions for this also welcome.

Thanks & Regards,
Bijesh

0 Bijesh Poyil over 12 years ago

Note: This was originally posted on 27th July 2011 at http://forums.arm.com

Thanks iso.

Are you aware of any boards with Cortex A-5 so that I can actually see this performance difference. I am using Beagleboard XM for Cortex A-8.

Thanks & Regards,
Bijesh
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0 Bijesh Poyil over 12 years ago

Note: This was originally posted on 29th July 2011 at http://forums.arm.com

Hi Alban
Thank you very much for the information.

Thanks & Regards,
Bijesh
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0 Alban Rampon over 12 years ago

Note: This was originally posted on 28th July 2011 at http://forums.arm.com

Hi Bijesh,
AFAIK, there is no SoC based on ARM Cortex-A5 available publicly today.
Kind regards, Alban
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0 Peter Harris over 12 years ago

Note: This was originally posted on 26th July 2011 at http://forums.arm.com

At the same frequency Cortex-A8 will be faster.

Cortex-A5 has a very small area footprint and designed for extreme power efficiency. Performance wise it is above an ARM11, but lower than a Cortex-A8. If you look at the "products" pages of the website you see the DMIPS figures for the two cores (1.57 DMIPS/MHz for the A5, and 2 DMIPS/MHz for the A8).

The core number is very very approximately indicative of performance position in the processor family - so the speed rankings are A5, A8, A9, A15.

Iso
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0 Peter Harris over 12 years ago

Note: This was originally posted on 26th July 2011 at http://forums.arm.com

Footnote - the Cortex-A5 does support multi-core, Cortex-A8 does not. If you have a 2x, 3x, or 4x core Cortex-A5 implementation and an algorithm that can be multi-threaded then you may find it goes much faster than a Cortex-A8.
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0 Axel Heider over 11 years ago

I know this thread is older and dead, but people still seem to find it when searching the forum. Thus here is something that will help them find an answer:

The "Odroid C1" board is available for a while now. It has a 4xA5 (Amlogic S805). See http://www.hardkernel.com/main/products/prdt_info.php?g_code=G141578608433
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