Cortex-A78, Neoverse N1 & ArmRAL.

Hello all,

Cortex-A78 and Neoverse N1 are based on ARMv8.2-A architecture with Armv8.1 and Arm8.2 extensions.

ArmRAL requires Arm Neoverse cores to accelerate 5G NR signal processing workloads that leverages the efficient vector engines.
It provides building blocks (functions or kernels) required by RAN L1 that run on CPU (and use SIMD) abstracting away the complexity of vector programming and also supports multiple architectures (Neon, SVE, SVE2 …).

I have a Cortex-A78 multicore based SmartNIC, is it possible to run the ArmRAL on these cores ? Am I loosing the Neoverse features on this way ? Performance will be the same ?

Thanks in advance.

BR,
Vlademir