Agilex™ 7 Hard Processor System Technical Reference Manual

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Date 10/31/2025
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3.5. Cortex* -A53 MPCore Functional Description

The Arm* Cortex* -A53 MPCore is a 64-bit processor that implements the Arm* v8-A architecture. The Cortex* -A53 MPCore processor has four cores with an L1 memory system and a single, shared L2 cache.
Table 30.   Arm* Cortex* -A53 MPCore Processor Configuration This table shows the parameters for the Arm* Cortex* -A53 MPCore processor.

Feature

Configuration

Arm* v8-A architecture, Cortex* -A53 CPUs

4

Instruction cache size per CPU

32 KB, 2-way set associative with a line size of 64 bytes per line

Data cache size per CPU

32 KB, 4-way set associative with a line size of 64 bytes per line

L2 cache size shared among four CPUs

1 MB, 16-way set associative with a line size of 64 bytes per line

Media Processing Engine with NEON* technology in each CPU

Included with support for floating-point operations

Arm* v8-A cryptographic extensions in each CPU

Included

Embedded Trace Macrocell (ETMv4) in each CPU

Included

Cache protection

Included for L1 and L2 cache. Refer to the Cache Protection section for more information.