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OVERVIEW Highest Performance Cortex-M Processor

The Cortex-M processor series is designed to enable developers to create cost-sensitive and power-constrained solutions for a broad range of devices. Highly energy efficient and designed for mixed-signal devices, Cortex-M7 is the highest-performance member of the family. Its DSP capability and flexible system interfaces makes it suitable for a wide variety of applications—from automotive and medical applications to sensor fusion and the Internet of Things (IoT).

Features and Benefits

Achieve More with the Highest Performance Cortex-M

The highest performance Cortex-M processor empowers embedded designers to develop feature-rich applications in the familiar and easy-to-use Cortex-M programmers’ model, without the need for complex operating systems.

High-Performance Floating-Point Processing

Reduce power consumption and extend battery life with 10x acceleration of single-precision, floating-point operations with the built-in floating-point unit (FPU).

Add Digital Signal Processing (DSP)

Reduce chip system cost with combined control and signal processing in the same processor. Cortex-M7 simplifies signal processing, reduces development effort, and brings high performance DSP to the masses.

SPECIFICATIONS

Cortex-M7 Specifications

The Cortex-M7 enables partners to build the most sophisticated variety of MCUs and embedded SoCs. Its industry leading high-performance and flexible system interfaces are ideal for a wide variety of application areas including automotive, industrial automation, medical devices, high-end audio, image and voice processing, sensor fusion and motor control.

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Key Documentation

• Cortex-M7 Technical Reference Manual

• Cortex-M7 Processor Datasheet

• Compare the specifications of Cortex-M processors: Download Comparison PDF

TECHNOLOGIES

A Foundation of Silicon Success

Arm-based chips, device architectures, and technologies orchestrate the performance of everything that makes modern life possible — from smartphones to agricultural sensors and from medical instruments to servers.

Armv7-M Architecture

The Armv7-M architecture provides opportunities for simple pipeline designs offering system performance levels across a broad range of markets and applications. It offers low cycle count execution, minimal interrupt latency, and cacheless operation, and is designed for deeply embedded systems.

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DSP for Cortex-M Processor Series

The DSP instructions and the optional floating-point unit improve the performance of numerical algorithms and enable signal processing operations directly on the Cortex-M4, Cortex-M33, and Cortex-M7 processors, while maintaining the ease of use of the Cortex-M programmer’s model.

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CMSIS-NN

A collection of efficient neural network kernels developed to maximize the performance and minimize the memory footprint of neural networks on Cortex-M processor cores.

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Safety Ready

Functional safety is a critical element in the design of any system that requires a high level of reliability. The Arm Safety Ready program is a collection of products across the Arm portfolio that have been through various and rigorous levels of functional safety systematic flows and development.

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Corstone

Designing a secure system-on-chip is challenging and time-consuming. To help designers get to market quickly, Arm provides the IP blocks needed to build a system. Corstone is a solution for architecting the system, making it secure and able to handle the complex power control infrastructure, while balancing trade-offs between performance and power.

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AMBA System Controllers

The Arm AMBA specifications are the standard for on-chip communication. AMBA is an open standard for the connection and management of functional blocks in a system on chip (SoC). It facilitates “right the first time” development of multi-processor designs with large numbers of controllers and peripherals.

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Industrial Automation

Increasingly, automated factories include autonomous robots that use machine learning and vision systems to enable them to work with less human control, or to operate in environments too harsh for humans. Cortex-M7 supports innovative MCUs for more intensive automation tasks.

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Sensor Fusion

Sensor fusion is the process by which data is combined from multiple sensors to yield the best estimate of the state of the system being observed. Sensor combinations are widespread in applications such as medical instruments, unmanned aerial vehicles, and robotics. Cortex-M7 includes several architectural enhancements that benefit sensor fusion algorithms.

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Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are expanding and defining more applications than ever before, changing how we interact with devices and machines everywhere. Arm CPU processor IP is scalable and flexible enough to run any type of ML workload, today or in the future.

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Find out how Cortex-M7 can improve performance and lower power consumption in your mixed signal applications.

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Cortex-M7 Resources

Safety Certificate

• Cortex-M7 Certificate ISO 26262, IEC 61508

Reference Book

• System-on-Chip Design with Arm Cortex-M Processors

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Blog

• New CMSIS-NN Neural Network Kernels Boost Efficiency in Microcontrollers by ~5x

Industry News

• NXP’s “Crossover” Cortex-M7 Chip Gains uClinux BSP
• Embedded Artists Selects Adesto’s EcoXiP System-Accelerating Memory

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