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Cortex-A9 Microprocessor Unit Subsystem
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The hard processor system (HPS) in the Altera
®
SoC FPGA device includes a stand-alone, full-featured
ARM
®
Cortex
™
-A9 MPCore
™
, single- or dual-core 32-bit application processor. The Cortex-A9
microprocessor unit (MPU) subsystem is composed of a Cortex-A9 MPCore, a level 2 (L2) cache, an
Accelerator Coherency Port (ACP) ID mapper, and debugging modules.
Features of the Cortex-A9 MPU Subsystem
The Altera Cortex-A9 MPU subsystem provides the following features:
• One or two Cortex-A9 processors
• Interrupt controller
• Private interval and watchdog timer for each processor
• Global timer
• TrustZone
®
system security extensions
• Symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) and asymmetric multiprocessing (AMP) modes
• Debugging modules
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