Produced | 2013 |
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Designed by | ARM Holdings |
Microarchitecture | ARMv7-A |
Cores | 1–8 |
L1 cache | 8–64 KB/8–64 KB |
L2 cache | Optional, up to 1 MB |
The ARM Cortex-A7 MPCore is a 32-bit microprocessor core licensed by ARM Holdings implementing the ARMv7-A architecture announced in 2011.
It has two target applications; firstly as a smaller, simpler, and more power-efficient successor to the Cortex-A8. The other use is in the big.LITTLE architecture, combining one or more A7 cores with one or more Cortex-A15 cores into a heterogeneous system. To do this it is fully feature-compatible with the A15.
Key features of the Cortex-A7 core are:
Several system-on-chips (SoC) have implemented the Cortex-A7 core, including: