Texas Instruments TI SITARA Computer Accessories User Manual


 
CORTEX A-8 : Highlights
First ARMv7 instruction-set architecture
Superscalar architecture delivers high performance
Advanced dynamic Branch prediction
Advanced dynamic Branch prediction
256 KB unified L2 cache
Dedicated, low
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latency, high
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BW interface to L1 cache
Dedicated, low
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latency, high
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BW interface to L1 cache
Enhanced VFPv3
Doubles number of double-precision registers
Adds new instructions to convert between fixed and floating point
Adds new instructions to convert between fixed and floating point
Efficient Run Time Compilation Target
Jazelle
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RCT: Target for Java. Memory footprint reduced up to 3x
Jazelle
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RCT: Target for Java. Memory footprint reduced up to 3x
Trust Zone
Normal & Secure worlds have different memory views
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