ARM Cortex-A72
Designed by | ARM Holdings |
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Microarchitecture | ARMv8-A |
Cores | 1–4 per cluster, multiple clusters[1] |
L1 cache | 80 KiB (48 KiB I-cache with parity, 32 KiB D-cache with ECC) per core |
L2 cache | 512 KiB to 4 MiB |
L3 cache | none |
The ARM Cortex-A72 is a microarchitecture implementing the ARMv8-A 64-bit instruction set designed by ARM Holdings. The Cortex-A72 is an out-of-order superscalar pipeline.[1] It is available as SIP core to licensees, and its design makes it suitable for integration with other SIP cores (e.g. GPU, display controller, DSP, image processor, etc.) into one die constituting a system on a chip (SoC).
Overview
- Pipelined processor with deeply out of order, speculative issue 3-way superscalar execution pipeline
- DSP and NEON SIMD extensions are mandatory per core
- VFPv4 Floating Point Unit onboard (per core)
- Hardware virtualization support
- Thumb-2 instruction set encoding reduces the size of 32-bit programs with little impact on performance.
- TrustZone security extensions
- Program Trace Macrocell and CoreSight Design Kit for unobtrusive tracing of instruction execution
- 32 KiB data (2-way set-associative) + 48 KiB instruction (3-way set-associative) L1 cache per core
- Integrated low-latency level-2 (16-way set-associative) cache controller, 512 KB to 4 MB configurable size per cluster
- 48-entry fully associative L1 instruction Translation Lookaside Buffer (TLB) with native support for 4 KiB, 64 KiB, and 1 MB page sizes
- 32-entry fully associative L1 data Translation Lookaside Buffer (TLB) with native support for 4 KiB, 64 KiB, and 1 MB page sizes
- 4-way set-associative of 1024-entry unified L2 TLB per core, supports hit-under-miss
- Sophisticated branch prediction algorithm that significantly increases performance and reduces energy from misprediction and speculation
- Early IC tag –3-way L1 cache at direct-mapped power*
- Regionalized TLB and μBTB tagging
- Small-offset branch-target optimizations
- Suppression of superfluous branch predictor accesses
See also
References
- 1 2 "Cortex-A72 Processor". ARM Holdings. Retrieved 2014-02-02.
External links
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