ARM Cortex-A5

The ARM Cortex-A5 is a 32-bit processor core licensed by ARM Holdings implementing the ARMv7-A architecture announced in 2009.

Overview
The Cortex-A5 is intended to replace the ARM9 and ARM11 cores for use in low-end devices. The Cortex-A5 offers features of the ARMv7 architecture focusing on internet applications e.g. VFPv4 and NEON advanced SIMD.

Key features of the Cortex-A5 core are:
 * Single-issue, in-order microarchitecture with an 8-stage pipeline
 * NEON SIMD instruction set extension (optional)
 * VFPv4 floating-point unit (optional)
 * Thumb-2 instruction set encoding
 * Jazelle RCT
 * 1.57 DMIPS / MHz

Chips
Several system-on-chips (SoC) have implemented the Cortex-A5 core, including:
 * Actions Semiconductor ATM7029 (gs702a) is a quad-core Cortex-A5 configuration
 * AMD APUs include a Cortex-A5 as a security co-processor
 * Amlogic S805, M805 and A111
 * Analog Devices ADSP-SC57x, ADSP-SC58x series ARM Cortex-A5 + SHARC+ multicore DSP
 * Atmel SAMA5Dxx
 * Freescale Vybrid Series
 * NTC Module 1879VM8Ya (penta-core Cortex-A5, up to 800 MHz)
 * Qualcomm Snapdragon S1 MSM7x25A / MSM7x27A (up to 1.0GHz + Adreno 200)
 * Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Play
 * Samsung Exynos 7420 (Cortex-A5 as an audio DSP)
 * Spreadtrum SC8810 (single core A5 1 GHz + Mali400 GPU)
 * contain a Cortex-A5 as a Platform Security Processor