Question - How many cores does the Solo A9 processor have?

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Question - How many cores does the Solo A9 processor have?

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alexblack commented 8 years ago

I'm curious if it has multiple cores or not, thanks!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_Cortex-A9

Answer 1 · 2016-05-15T22:16:59.000Z

Solo uses the Freescale i.MX6 Solo (1Ghz, 1 CPU core w/VPU and GPU)

Answer 2 · 2016-05-15T22:50:36.000Z

Thanks. What is a VPU?
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Answer 3 · 2016-05-15T22:52:19.000Z

Video Processing Unit

Answer 4 · 2016-05-15T23:03:16.000Z

Ah, cool. What is the VPU used for in normal operation? Can it be used via
code/API?
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Video Processing Unit

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Answer 5 · 2016-05-19T00:43:55.000Z

@alexblack VPU only does video encoding & decoding. Possibly use this to acces it: https://github.com/Freescale/libimxvpuapi