XO-1.75 progress

[Bert Freudenberg]

On 11.11.2010, at 21:33, Mikus Grinbergs wrote:

>> You can get Marvell's spec sheets on ... the Armada 610 SoCs at:
>> http://www.marvell.com/products/processors/applications/armada_600/armada610_pb.pdf
> 
> That spec sheet is kinda skimpy.  In a discussion of CPU performance for
> the XO-1.75, Chris Ball said "we're now using a dual-issue CPU".
> I was not sure what that phrase meant (perhaps "dual core"?) - but this
> cited Marvell spec sheet did not clarify that about the Armada 610/MMP2.

It's a single core, but can (sometimes) issue two instructions in one cycle:

	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superscalar

- Bert -