A2.1 Components
In a standalone configuration, the core consists of up to four cores and a DSU that connects the cores to
an external memory system.
For more information about the DSU, see the Arm
®
DynamIQ
™
Shared Unit Technical Reference Manual.
The main components of the Cortex-A76 core are:
• Instruction fetch.
• Instruction decode.
• Register rename.
• Instruction issue.
• Execution pipelines.
• L1 data memory system.
• L2 memory system.
A2 Technical overview
A2.1 Components
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