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2.2.2. Cortex-A53 MPCore Processor
The Cortex* -A53 MPCore supports high-performance applications and provides the capability for secure processing and virtualization. Each CPU in the processor has the following features:
- Support for 32- and 64-bit instruction sets
- In-order pipeline with symmetric dual-issue of most instructions
- Arm* NEON* single instruction, multiple data (SIMD) co-processor with a floating-point unit (FPU)
- Single- and double-precision IEEE-754 floating point math support
- Integer and polynomial math support
- Symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) and asymmetric multiprocessing (AMP) modes
- Arm* v8 Cryptography Extension
- Level 1 (L1) cache
- 32 KB two-way set associative instruction cache
- Single Error Detect (SED) and parity checking support for L1 instruction cache
- 32 KB four-way set associative data cache
- Error checking and correction (ECC), Single Error Correct, Double Error Detect (SECDED) protection for L1 data cache
- Memory Management Unit (MMU) that communicates with the system MMU (SMMU)
- Generic timer
- Governor module that controls clock and reset
- Debug modules
- Performance Monitor Unit
- Embedded Trace Macrocell (ETMv4)
- CoreSight cross trigger interface
The four CPUs share a 1 MB L2 cache with ECC, SECDED protection. A snoop control unit (SCU) maintains coherency between the CPUs and communicates with the system cache coherency unit (CCU).
At a system level, the Cortex* -A53 MPCore interfaces to a generic interrupt controller (GIC), CCU, and system memory management unit (SMMU).