ARM Cortex-A9
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Key features of the Cortex-A9 core are:
- Out-of-order speculative issue superscalar execution 8-stage pipeline giving 8.50 DMIPS/MHz/core.
- NEON SIMD instruction set extension performing up to 16 operations per instruction (optional).
- High performance VFPv3 floating point unit doubling the performance of previous ARM FPUs (optional).
- Thumb-2 instruction set encoding reduces the size of programs with little impact on performance.
- TrustZone security extensions.
- Jazelle DBX support for Java execution.
- Jazelle RCT for JIT compilation.
- Program Trace Macrocell and CoreSight Design Kit for non-intrusive tracing of instruction execution.
- L2 cache controller (0–4 MB).
- Multi-core processing.
ARM states that the TSMC 40G hard macro implementation typically operates at 2 GHz; a single core (excluding caches) occupies less than 1.5 mm2 when designed in a TSMC 65 nanometer (nm) generic process and can be clocked at speeds over 1 GHz, consuming less than 250 mW per core.
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Chips
Several system on a chip (SoC) devices implement the Cortex-A9 core, including:
- Altera SoC FPGA
- AMLogic AML8726-M
- Apple A5, A5X
- Broadcom BCM11311 (Persona ICE)
- Calxeda EnergyCore ECX-1000
- Entropic EN7588, EN7530
- NXP Semiconductors (Formerly Freescale) QorIQ Layerscape LS1024A
- Freescale Semiconductor i.MX6
- HiSilicon K3V2 -Hi3620
- Marvell Avastar 88W8787, used in the Sony PlayStation Vita
- MediaTek MT6575 (single core), MT6577 (dual core)
- Mindspeed Technologies Mindspeed Comcerto 2000
- Nufront NuSmart 2816, 2816M, 115
- Nvidia Tegra 2 (without NEON extensions), Tegra 3 and Tegra 4i
- Trident Microsystems 847x/8x/9x SoC family
- Renesas Electronics RZ/A1H, M, L, LU Family
- Samsung Exynos 4210, 4212, 4412, 4415
- Rockchip RK3066, RK292x, RK31xx
- STMicroelectronics SPEAr1310, SPEAr1340
- ST-Ericsson Nova A9500, NovaThor U8500, NovaThor U9500
- Texas Instruments OMAP4 processors
- Texas Instruments Sitara AM437x
- WonderMedia WM8850, WM8950 and WM8980
- Xilinx Extensible Processing Platform
- ZiiLABS ZMS-20