Assignment 2(b) Comparison report on Technical Specification of Apple A6 Processor and Apple A7 Processor Submitted by: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

. Arvind Prasanna Kumar Ravi Kumar Vinayaka Babu Pavan Kumar Apple A6 processor Apple A7 processor

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September 12, 2012 Apple Inc.

September 10, 2013 Apple Inc.

Apple A6 processor Common manufacturer Product code Semiconductor Technology Die Size Max. CPU Clock Rate CPU Micro Architecture No. of Cores L1 cache L2 cache GPU Application Predecessor Successor Variant Samsung S5L8950X 32 nm HKMG (High- Metal Gate) Samsung S5L8960X

Apple A7 processor

28 nm HKMG (High- Metal Gate)

96.71mm2 1.3 GHz

102mm2 1.3 GHz

ARMv7s 1.3 GHz dual-core Swift 2 32 KB instruction + 32 KB data 1 MB PowerVR SGX543MP3(tri-core) @ 266MHz Mobile Apple A5 Apple A7

ARMv8 1.3 GHz dual-core Cyclone 2 Per core: 64 KB instruction + 64 KB data 1 MB shared PowerVR G6430 (four cluster) Mobile Apple A6 ---

Apple A6X

Summary: Apple A6 Processor A6 is a package on package (PoP) 64-bit system on a chip (SoC) Introduced on September 12, 2012, Used with Iphone 5. Speed and graphics power is double of A5. Speed of 1.3 GHz custom designed ARMv7 based Dual core CPU called Swift The Swift core in the A6 uses a new tweaked instruction set, ARMv7s, Having 3 FPUS 1 GB of LPDDR2-1066 RAM. Having a upgraded ISP unit providing an improvement to image capturing, Low light performance, Noise reduction and video stabilization. The A6 is manufactured by Samsung on a High metal gate (HKMG) 32 nm process and the chip is 96.71 mm2 large, which is 22% smaller than the A5. The A6 also consumes less power than its predecessor A5. Apple A7 Processor A7 is a package on package (PoP) 64bit system on a chip (SoC) Introduced on September 10, 2013, Used with Iphone 5S. Speed and Graphics Power is double of A6. World First Arm based 64 Bit Processor. Speed of 1.3 GHz ARMV7 Dual core CPU called as Cyclone Four cluster GPU Configuration ARMv8 instructions Sets are used hen e doubling the number of registers as compared to A6. Having 31 General purpose Registers (GPR) with 64 bit wide. 32 Floating point Registers(FPR) with 128 bit wide Having 64 KB of data latch, 64 Kb of Instruction Set Latch and also 1MB of Shared latch L2. 1 GB of LPDDR3 DRAM on package itself with 64 bit memory interface. Having a upgraded ISP (similar to A6) unit providing an improvement to image capturing, Low light performance, Noise reduction and video stabilization Designed By Apple Inc, manufactured by Samsung Electronics The A7 is manufactured by Samsung on a High- Metal Gate (HKMG) 28 nm process and the chip includes over 1 billion transistors on a die 102 mm2 in size