Scorpion (CPU)

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Scorpion is a CPU core developed by Qualcomm for use in their mobile Snapdragon systems on chips (SoCs). It was developed in-house, but has many architectural similarities to the ARM Cortex-A8 and Cortex-A9 CPU cores.

overview

  • 10/12 stage integer pipeline with 2-way decoding, 3-way out-of-order speculatively issued superscalar execution
  • Pipeline VFPv3 and 128 bit wide NEON ( SIMD )
  • 3 execution connections
  • 32 KB + 32 KB L1 cache
  • 256 KB (single core) or 512 KB (dual core) L2 cache
  • Single or dual core configuration
  • 2.1 DMIPS / MHz
  • 65/28 nm process

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://rtcgroup.com/arm/2007/presentations/253%20-%20ARM_DevCon_2007_Snapdragon_FINAL_20071004.pdf
  2. ↑ Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 (Krait) Performance Preview - 1.5 GHz MSM8960 MDP and Adreno 225 benchmarks . Anandtech . February 21, 2012. Retrieved July 28, 2013.