USER MANUAL v1.0
Date: 01/20/2014
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Hardware Description
2.1
Processor
The i.MX 6Solo processor represents Freescale Semiconductor’s latest achievement in
integrated multimedia applications processors, which are part of a growing family of
multimedia-focused products that offer high performance processing and are
optimized for lowest power consumption.
The processor features Freescale’s advanced implementation of the single ARM™
Cortex-A9 core, which operates at speeds up to 1 GHz. It includes 2D and 3D graphics
processors, 3D 1080p video processing, and integrated power management. The
processor provides a 16/32-bit DDR3/LVDDR3-800 memory interface and a number of
other interfaces for connecting peripherals, such as WLAN, Bluetooth™, GPS, hard drive,
displays, and camera sensors.
2.1.1
Core Features
T
he i.MX 6Solo processor is based on the ARM Cortex A9 MPCore™ platform with the
following features:
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ARM Cortex A9 MPCore™ CPU Processor (with TrustZone)
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The core configuration is symmetric, where the core includes:
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32 KByte L1 Instruction Cache
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32 KByte L1 Data Cache
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Private Timer and Watchdog
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Cortex-A9 NEON MPE (Media Processing Engine) Co-processor
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The ARM Cortex A9 MPCore™ complex includes:
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General Interrupt Controller (GIC) with 128 interrupt support
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Global Timer
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Snoop Control Unit (SCU)
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512 KB unified I/D L2 cache
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Two Master AXI (64-bit) bus interfaces output of L2 cache
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NEON MPE coprocessor
SIMD Media Processing Architecture
NEON register file with 32x64-bit general-purpose registers
NEON Integer execute pipeline (ALU, Shift, MAC)
NEON dual, single-precision floating point execute pipeline
(FADD, FMUL)
NEON load/store and permute pipeline
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The memory system consists of the following components:
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Level 1 Cache--32 KB Instruction, 32 KB Data cache per core
