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ARM Cortex-A12
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<h2 id="overview">Overview</h2> <p class="note">Main article: <a href="/facts/Comparison_of_ARMv7-A_cores/j9Jd85YP">Comparison of ARMv7-A cores</a></p> <p>ARM claims that the Cortex-A12 core is 40 percent more powerful than the <a href="/facts/ARM_Cortex-A9_MPCore/7frBGbbK">Cortex-A9</a> core.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a> New features not found in the Cortex-A9 include hardware virtualization and 40-bit Large Physical Address Extensions (LPAE) addressing. It was announced as supporting big.LITTLE,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a> however shortly afterwards the <a href="/facts/ARM_Cortex-A17/NC6zNRPy">ARM Cortex-A17</a> was announced as the upgraded version with that capability.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6"><sup>6</sup></a> </p><p>Key features of the Cortex-A12 core are:<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:7" href="#fn:7"><sup>7</sup></a> </p> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Out-of-order_execution/bM0dQM8m">Out-of-order</a> <a href="/facts/Speculative_execution/AkA84o5n">speculative issue</a> <a href="/facts/Superscalar/gPxRAb25">superscalar</a> execution <a href="/facts/Instruction_pipeline/3zy6CcX1">pipeline</a> giving 3.00 <a href="/facts/Dhrystone/7obFPy8m">DMIPS</a>/MHz/core.</li> <li><a href="/facts/ARM_NEON/SALsYA79">NEON</a> <a href="/facts/SIMD/gQHWQSpo">SIMD</a> instruction set extension.</li> <li>High performance VFPv4 floating point unit.</li> <li><a href="/facts/Thumb-2/SALsYA79">Thumb-2</a> instruction set encoding reduces the size of programs with little impact on performance.</li> <li><a href="/facts/TrustZone/SALsYA79">TrustZone</a> security extensions.</li> <li>L2 cache controller (0-8 MB).</li> <li>Multi-core processing.</li> <li>40-bit Large Physical Address Extensions (LPAE) addressing up to 1 <a href="/facts/Terabyte/BNHUp9Qq">TB</a> of RAM.</li> <li><a href="/facts/Hardware_virtualization/6e2Bhhz2">Hardware virtualization</a> support.</li></ul> <h2 id="see-also">See also</h2> <ul> <li>Electronics portal</li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/facts/ARM_architecture/SALsYA79">ARM architecture</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Comparison_of_ARMv8-A_cores/ukAolpcp">Comparison of ARMv8-A cores</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/JTAG/IxRc5rG7">JTAG</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/List_of_applications_of_ARM_cores/lo75eMMp">List of applications of ARM cores</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/List_of_ARM_cores/TXgfk7hk">List of ARM cores</a></li></ul> <h2 id="external-links">External links</h2> ARM Holdings <ul><li><a href="http://www.arm.com/products/processors/cortex-a/cortex-a12-processor.php">Official website</a></li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>"ARM Cortex-A12 Processor". Arm.com. <a href="http://www.arm.com/products/processors/cortex-a/cortex-a12-processor.php" target="_blank">http://www.arm.com/products/processors/cortex-a/cortex-a12-processor.php</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>Anand Lal Shimpi (11 February 2014). "ARM Cortex A17: An Evolved Cortex A12 for the Mainstream in 2015". AnandTech. Retrieved 30 September 2014. <a href="http://www.anandtech.com/show/7739/arm-cortex-a17" target="_blank">http://www.anandtech.com/show/7739/arm-cortex-a17</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>Stefan Rosinger (1 October 2014). "ARM Cortex-A17 / Cortex-A12 processor update". ARM Connected Community. <a href="http://community.arm.com/groups/processors/blog/2014/09/30/arm-cortex-a17-cortex-a12-processor-update" target="_blank">http://community.arm.com/groups/processors/blog/2014/09/30/arm-cortex-a17-cortex-a12-processor-update</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>"ARM launches new Cortex-A12 processor with new Mali-T622 GPU and Mali-V500 video processing". Archived from the original on 26 August 2013. Retrieved 3 June 2013. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130826134614/http://www.androidauthority.com/arm-launches-cortex-a12-220160/" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20130826134614/http://www.androidauthority.com/arm-launches-cortex-a12-220160/</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>ARM Targets 580 Million Mid-Range Mobile Devices with New Suite of IP <a href="http://www.arm.com/about/newsroom/arm-targets-580-million-mid-range-mobile-devices-with-new-suite-of-ip.php" target="_blank">http://www.arm.com/about/newsroom/arm-targets-580-million-mid-range-mobile-devices-with-new-suite-of-ip.php</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:6"><p>Anand Lal Shimpi (11 February 2014). "ARM Cortex A17: An Evolved Cortex A12 for the Mainstream in 2015". Anandtech. <a href="http://www.anandtech.com/show/7739/arm-cortex-a17" target="_blank">http://www.anandtech.com/show/7739/arm-cortex-a17</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:7"><p>"Cortex-A12 Processor Specifications". ARM. <a href="http://www.arm.com/products/processors/cortex-a/cortex-a12-processor.php?tab=Specifications" target="_blank">http://www.arm.com/products/processors/cortex-a/cortex-a12-processor.php?tab=Specifications</a> <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>