9.2 Embedded Characteristics
The Cortex-A7 processor (r0p5) implements the Arm v7-A architecture. This includes:
- 32-bit Arm Instruction Set
- Thumb Instruction Set featuring 16-bit and 32-bit Instructions
- ThumbEE Instruction Set
- Implementation of the Jazelle Extension
- Arm v7 Debug Architecture
- TrustZone Security Extensions
- Harvard Level 1 Memory System with a Memory Management Unit (MMU)
- 32 Kbytes L1 Data Cache
- 32 Kbytes L1 Instruction Cache
- 256 Kbytes L2 Cache
- Generic Interrupt Controller (GIC)
- Media Processing Engine (MPE) with Neon Technology
- Trace Support through an Embedded Trace Macrocell (ETM) Interface
- Performance Monitoring Unit (PMU)