Vendor: Arm Ltd. Category: CPU

Arm Cortex-A72

The Arm® Cortex®-A72 is an efficient high-performance processor that implements the Armv8-A architecture.

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Overview

The Arm® Cortex®-A72 is an efficient high-performance processor that implements the Armv8-A architecture. The Cortex-A72 processor can be paired with the Cortex-A53 processor in a big.LITTLE configuration for mobile applications. The Cortex-A72 processor cluster has one to four cores, each with their L1 instruction and data caches, together with a single shared L2 unified cache.

Key features

  • Triple-Issue Out-of-Order Pipeline - Dispatch and computational bandwidth improvements over Cortex-A57 have maximize the effectiveness of the triple-issue out-of-order pipeline to remove code dependencies for achieving high peak and sustained instruction throughputs at frequencies above 3GHz in 16FF+ process technology.
  • Advanced Branch Predictor - A sophisticated new algorithm drastically improves prediction accuracy which reduces wasted energy consumption from executing down a wrong code path.
  • Microarchitecture Efficiency - Every aspect of the Cortex-A57 microarchitecture was optimized to usher in a new level of Cortex-A energy efficiency with dramatic improvements in all aspects of PPA metrics (performance, power, and area).
  • Infrastructure Features - Support for networking and storage application with full ECC cache and 44-bit addressing up to 16TB.

Block Diagram

Arm Cortex-A72 block diagram

Benefits

  • State-of-the-art high-performance processor from Arm for infrastructure, mobile, and automotive markets.
  • Market-leading compute density across all application form factors.
  • Improved performance and efficiency, with full Armv8-A 64-bit support.
  • This processor can also be implemented in an Arm big.LITTLE™ configuration.

    • Applications

    • Mid-range mobile
    • vCPE/IoT gateways
    • Networking and base station
    • Storage
    • Industrial and military aerospace
    • Automotive ADAS

    Specifications

    Identity

    Part Number
    Arm Cortex-A72
    Vendor
    Arm Ltd.
    Type
    Silicon IP

    Compute

    CPU Architecture
    ARM

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    Provider

    Arm Ltd.
    HQ: Great Britain
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