Oxford-based simulator firm Imperas has released a software model of the ARM Cortex-A7 MP core, completing its set of ARM core models.
"These are the fastest models on the planet," company founder and CEO Simon Davidmann told Electronics Weekly. "We run on a standard 3GHz Intel desktop at up to six billion instruction/s."
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