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Scorpion (CPU)

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Produced
  
2008

Common manufacturer(s)
  
Qualcomm

Instruction set
  
ARM, Thumb-2

Designed by
  
Qualcomm

Max. CPU clock rate
  
800 MHz to 1.7 GHz

Cores
  
1 or 2

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

Overview

  • 10/12 stage integer pipeline with 2-way decode, 3-way out-of-order speculatively issued superscalar execution
  • Pipelined VFPv3 and 128-bit wide NEON (SIMD)
  • 3 execution ports
  • 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

    • References

    Scorpion (CPU) Wikipedia
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