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The companion core of the ARMv7 TK1 is a low power Cortex-A15, like the grandparent comment says. This is different from ARM's big.LITTLE which uses different m
by lgeek 12y ago
The companion core of the ARMv7 TK1 is a low power Cortex-A15, like the grandparent comment says. This is different from ARM's big.LITTLE which uses different microarchitectures for the two clusters, i.e. Cortex-A15 + Cortex-A7 or Cortex-A53 + Cortex-A57.
- szatkus 12y agoIt's too small to be A15. I found the information that the companion core was A15 in Tegra 4, but it's similar size to other cores[1]. [1]http://cnet4.cbsistatic.com/hub/i/2013/01/06/318d69ea-fdb7-11e2-8c7c-d4ae52e62bcc/85c559e80edbefe0a6e96c889ad2eb18/Tegra4_NvidiaPresser.jpg http://cnet4.cbsistatic.com/hub/i/2013/01/06/318d69ea-fdb7-1...
- lgeek 12y agoSorry, but that looks more like an artist's vision of a die shot than an actual die shot. The TRM is pretty clear that it's an A15: http://i.imgur.com/Fvh2KVT.png http://i.imgur.com/Fvh2KVT.png
- Symmetry 12y agoCore size isn't just a matter of the number of gates, but also their size. One important tool for reaching high frequencies in chips is to have gates that drive more capacities load be wider and therefore higher power. But if your goal is to have an architecturally identical core that's lower power one of the tools you have to accomplish that is to not do that. There's probably other ways to shrink a core at the cost of performance, as well.