The ARM Cortex-A7 MPCore is a 32-bit microprocessor core licensed by

ARM Holdings Arm is a British semiconductor and software design company based in Cambridge, England. Its primary business is in the design of ARM processors (CPUs). It also designs other chips, provides software development tools under the DS-5, Real ...

implementing the ARMv7-A architecture announced in 2011.

Overview

It has two target applications; firstly as a smaller, simpler, and more power-efficient successor to the

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. The other use is in the

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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: * Partial dual-issue, in-order microarchitecture with an 8-stage pipeline *

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instruction set extension * VFPv4 Floating Point Unit *

Thumb-2 ARM (stylised in lowercase as arm, formerly an acronym for Advanced RISC Machines and originally Acorn RISC Machine) is a family of reduced instruction set computer (RISC) instruction set architectures for computer processors, configured ...

instruction set encoding *

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* Large Page Address Extensions (LPAE) * Integrated level 2 Cache (0–1 MB) * 1.9 DMIPS / MHz * Typical clock speed 1.5 GHz

Chips

Several system-on-chips (SoC) have implemented the Cortex-A7 core, including: *

Allwinner A20 Allwinner Technology Co., Ltd is a fabless semiconductor company that designs mixed-signal systems on a chip (SoC). The company is headquartered in Zhuhai, Guangdong, China. It has a sales and technical support office in Shenzhen, Guangdong, ...

(dual-core A7 +

Mali Mali (; ), officially the Republic of Mali,, , ff, 𞤈𞤫𞤲𞥆𞤣𞤢𞥄𞤲𞤣𞤭 𞤃𞤢𞥄𞤤𞤭, Renndaandi Maali, italics=no, ar, جمهورية مالي, Jumhūriyyāt Mālī is a landlocked country in West Africa. Ma ...

-400 MP2 GPU) *

Allwinner A31 Allwinner Technology Co., Ltd is a fabless semiconductor company that designs mixed-signal systems on a chip (SoC). The company is headquartered in Zhuhai, Guangdong, China. It has a sales and technical support office in Shenzhen, Guangdong ...

(quad-core A7 + PowerVR SGX544MP2 GPU) *

Allwinner A83T Allwinner Technology Co., Ltd is a fabless semiconductor company that designs mixed-signal systems on a chip (SoC). The company is headquartered in Zhuhai, Guangdong, China. It has a sales and technical support office in Shenzhen, Guangdong ...

(octa-core A7 + PowerVR SGX544 GPU) *

Allwinner Allwinner Technology Co., Ltd is a fabless semiconductor company that designs mixed-signal systems on a chip (SoC). The company is headquartered in Zhuhai, Guangdong, China. It has a sales and technical support office in Shenzhen, Guangdong ...

br>H3
quad-core A7 +

-400 MP2 GPU) *

Broadcom Broadcom Inc. is an American designer, developer, manufacturer and global supplier of a wide range of semiconductor and infrastructure software products. Broadcom's product offerings serve the data center, networking, software, broadband, wirel ...

BCM23550 quad-core HSPA+ Multimedia Processor *

BCM2836 (quad-core A7 +

VideoCore VideoCore is a low-power mobile multimedia processor originally developed by Alphamosaic Ltd and now owned by Broadcom. Its two-dimensional DSP architecture makes it flexible and efficient enough to decode (as well as encode) a number of multime ...

IV GPU), designed specifically for Raspberry Pi 2 * NXP Semiconductor (Formerly Freescale)

QorIQ QorIQ is a brand of ARM-based and Power ISA-based communications microprocessors from NXP Semiconductors (formerly Freescale). It is the evolutionary step from the PowerQUICC platform, and initial products were built around one or more e50 ...

Layerscape LS1 (dual-core A7) *

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i.MX The i.MX range is a family of Freescale Semiconductor (now part of NXP) proprietary microcontrollers for multimedia applications based on the ARM architecture and focused on low-power consumption. The i.MX application processors are SoCs (Syste ...

6 UltraLite *

HiSilicon HiSilicon () is a Chinese fabless semiconductor company based in Shenzhen, Guangdong and wholly owned by Huawei. HiSilicon purchases licenses for CPU designs from ARM Holdings, including the ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore, ARM Cortex-M3, ARM Cortex-A7 ...

K3V3, big.LITTLE architecture with dual-core Cortex-A7 and dual-core Cortex-A15. Use ARM Mali-T658 GPU. * Marvell PXA1088 (quad-core A7 +

Vivante Vivante Corporation is a fabless semiconductor company headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, with an R&D center in Shanghai, China. The company was founded in 2004 as GiQuila and focused on the portable gaming market. The company's first prod ...

GC1000) *

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br>MT6570
(dual-core A7 + ARM

-400MP1 GPU) *

br>MT6572
(dual-core A7 + ARM

-400MP1 GPU) *

br>MT6580
(quad-core A7 + ARM

-400MP2 GPU) *

br>MT6582
(quad-core A7 + ARM

-400MP2 GPU) *

MT6589 (quad-core A7 +

Imagination Technologies Imagination Technologies Limited is a British semiconductor and software design company owned by Canyon Bridge Capital Partners, a private equity fund based in Beijing that is ultimately owned by the Chinese government. With its global headqua ...

PowerVR SGX544 GPU) *

br>MT6592
(octa-core A7 + ARM

-450MP4 GPU) * Mstar MSB2531A ARM Cortex A7 32bit 800MHZ * Qualcomm Snapdragon 200 and Snapdragon 400 MSM8212 and MSM8612, MSM8226, MSM8626 and MSM8926 (quad core A7 +

Adreno Adreno is a series of graphics processing unit (GPU) semiconductor intellectual property cores developed by Qualcomm and used in many of their SoCs. History Adreno (an anagram of AMD's graphic card brand ''Radeon''), was originally developed ...

305 GPU) *

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Exynos Exynos, formerly Hummingbird (), is a series of ARM-based system-on-chips developed by Samsung Electronics' System LSI division and manufactured by Samsung Foundry. It is a continuation of Samsung's earlier S3C, S5L and S5P line of SoCs. ...

5 Octa (5410), big.LITTLE architecture with quad-core Cortex-A7 and quad-core Cortex-A15. Use

PowerVR SGX544MP3 GPU. *

5 Octa (5420), big.LITTLE architecture with quad-core Cortex-A7 and quad-core Cortex-A15. Use ARM

-T628MP6 GPU. *

STMicroelectronics STMicroelectronics N.V. commonly referred as ST or STMicro is a Dutch multinational corporation and technology company of French-Italian origin headquartered in Plan-les-Ouates near Geneva, Switzerland and listed on the French stock market. ST ...

br>STM32MP1
(dual-core A7 + M4 +

GPU)

References

External links

;ARM Holdings *
Cortex-A7 Technical Reference Manuals
;Other
Cortex-A7 instruction cycle timings
{{Application ARM-based chips ARM processors ARM Holdings IP cores

Overview

Chips

See also

References

External links