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Hello,
Is there any data regarding the minimum and maximum frequency a processor can operate in ARM V-7 ?
From an article on the Cortex-A8 design (emphasis mine):
Finally, a few of the most critical timing and area sensitive blocks of the design are reserved for full custom techniques. This includes memory arrays, register files and scoreboards. These blocks contain a mix of static and dynamic logic. No self-timed circuits are used.
That's mostly an implementation choice - the first Cortex-A8 implementations used some semi-custom layout and cells to improve performance - but the synthesis tools and standard libraries soon caught up, so there is also a fully synthesized version which is commonly used today.
HTH, Pete