ARM Cortex A9 - 3.4 Advanced SIMD architecture

Programmers Model
ARM DDI 0388I Copyright © 2008-2012 ARM. All rights reserved. 3-5
ID073015 Non-Confidential
3.4 Advanced SIMD architecture
The Advanced SIMD architecture extension is a media and signal processing architecture that
adds instructions targeted primarily at audio, video, 3-D graphics, image, and speech
processing.
Note
The Advanced SIMD architecture extension, its associated implementations, and supporting
software, are commonly referred to as NEON MPE.
NEON MPE includes both Advanced SIMD instructions and the ARM VFPv3 instructions. All
Advanced SIMD instructions and VFP instructions are available in both ARM and Thumb
states.
See the ARM Architecture Reference Manual for more information.
See the Cortex-A9 NEON Media Processing Engine Technical Reference Manual for
implementation-specific information.