Thursday, October 20, 2011

Here it is : ARM A7 dual core Little dog will run Ipod 5 !

The A7 is a dual-issue, eight-stage pipeline core that has been heavily optimized for power efficiency, but supports the same virtualization and extended addressing of the A15. As a result ARM (Cambridge, England) expects partners to implement a "little dog, big dog" strategy so that cores are selected to run different applications based on power efficiency needs. 

BAD HARDWARE WEEK: We were the first with announcement. A few days ago.
Ipod 5 has been mainly waiting for this announcement. Here is a  promotion video.
 Cortex-A7 MPCore >1GHz in 28nm :
Architecture 
ARMv7-A  Cortex
Multicore 
  • 1-4X SMP within a single processor cluster
  • Multiple coherent SMP processor clusters through AMBA® 4 technology    
ISA Support  
  • ARM
  • Thumb-2
  • TrustZone® security technology
  • NEON™ Advanced SIMD
  • DSP & SIMD extensions
  • VFPv4 Floating point
  • Jazelle® RCT
  • Hardware virtualization support
  • Large Physical Address Extensions (LPAE)  
Memory Management 
ARMv7 Memory Management Unit  
Debug and TraceCoreSight™ DK-A7  

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