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Contents
ARM Cortex-A53 MPCore Processor Technical
Reference Manual
Preface
About this book .......................................................................................................... vii
Feedback .................................................................................................................... xi
Chapter 1 Introduction
1.1 About the Cortex-A53 processor ............................................................................. 1-2
1.2 Compliance .............................................................................................................. 1-3
1.3 Features ................................................................................................................... 1-5
1.4 Interfaces ................................................................................................................. 1-6
1.5 Implementation options ............................................................................................ 1-7
1.6 Test features ............................................................................................................ 1-9
1.7 Product documentation and design flow ................................................................ 1-10
1.8 Product revisions ................................................................................................... 1-12
Chapter 2 Functional Description
2.1 About the Cortex-A53 processor functions .............................................................. 2-2
2.2 Interfaces ................................................................................................................. 2-7
2.3 Clocking and resets ................................................................................................. 2-9
2.4 Power management ............................................................................................... 2-16
Chapter 3 Programmers Model
3.1 About the programmers model ................................................................................ 3-2
3.2 ARMv8-A architecture concepts .............................................................................. 3-4
Chapter 4 System Control
4.1 About system control ............................................................................................... 4-2