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ARM Cortex-A7

Mediatek MT6582V
General information
Launched	2011[1]
Designed by	ARM Holdings
Performance
Max. CPU clock rate	520 MHz  to 2.3 GHz
Physical specifications
Cores	1–8
Cache
L1 cache	8–64 KB/8–64 KB
L2 cache	Optional, up to 1 MB
Architecture and classification
Instruction set	ARMv7-A
History
Predecessor	ARM Cortex-A5
Successor	ARM Cortex-A53

The ARM Cortex-A7 MPCore is a 32-bit microprocessor core licensed by ARM Holdings implementing the ARMv7-A architecture announced in 2011.^[1]

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.^[2] 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^[3]
• NEON SIMD instruction set extension
• VFPv4 Floating Point Unit
• Thumb-2 instruction set encoding
• Jazelle RCT
• Hardware virtualization
• Large Page Address Extensions (LPAE)
• Integrated level 2 Cache (0–1 MB)
• 1.9 DMIPS / MHz^[3]
• Typical clock speed 1.5 GHz^[3]

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

• Allwinner A20 (dual-core A7 + Mali-400 MP2 GPU)^[4]
• Allwinner A31 (quad-core A7 + PowerVR SGX544MP2 GPU)^[5]
• Allwinner A83T (octa-core A7 + PowerVR SGX544 GPU)^[6]
• Allwinner H3(quad-core A7 + Mali-400 MP2 GPU)^[7]
• Broadcom BCM23550 quad-core HSPA+ Multimedia Processor^[8]
• Broadcom BCM2836 (quad-core A7 + VideoCore IV GPU), designed specifically for Raspberry Pi 2^[9]
• Broadcom BCM6846 (dual-core A7) Broadband SoC^[10]
• NXP Semiconductor (Formerly Freescale) QorIQ Layerscape LS1 (dual-core A7)
• Freescale i.MX 6 UltraLite
• HiSilicon 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 GC1000)^[11]
• Mediatek MT6570 (dual-core A7 + ARM Mali-400MP1 GPU)
• Mediatek MT6572 (dual-core A7 + ARM Mali-400MP1 GPU)
• Mediatek MT6580 (quad-core A7 + ARM Mali-400MP2 GPU)
• Mediatek MT6582 Archived 2021-06-10 at the Wayback Machine (quad-core A7 + ARM Mali-400MP2 GPU)
• Mediatek MT6589 (quad-core A7 + Imagination Technologies PowerVR SGX544 GPU)
• Mediatek MT6592 (octa-core A7 + ARM Mali-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 305 GPU)
• Samsung Exynos 5 Octa (5410), big.LITTLE architecture with quad-core Cortex-A7 and quad-core Cortex-A15. Use Imagination Technologies PowerVR SGX544MP3 GPU.
• Samsung Exynos 5 Octa (5420), big.LITTLE architecture with quad-core Cortex-A7 and quad-core Cortex-A15. Use ARM Mali-T628MP6 GPU.
• STMicroelectronics STM32MP13x (single-core A7)
• STMicroelectronics STM32MP15x (dual-core A7 + M4 + Vivante GPU)
• ASPEED AST2600 BMC (dual-core A7 + M4)

• ARM architecture
• Comparison of ARMv7-A cores
• JTAG
• List of applications of ARM cores
• List of ARM cores

Wikimedia Commons has media related to ARM Cortex-A7.

ARM Holdings

• Official website
• Cortex-A7 Technical Reference Manuals

Other

• Cortex-A7 instruction cycle timings