Enabling the Real-Time Future of Autonomous and Software-Defined Vehicles
This 64-bit Arm Cortex-R processor blends the benefits of deterministic execution with advanced processor technologies to enable rich software stacks, including coherency and virtualization. It is capable of providing high single-thread performance in multi-core, multi-cluster systems as the primary processor, or as a real-time safety controller with simplified integration with applications processors in heterogeneous systems.
Cortex-R82AE delivers the real-time, safety processor performance that powers the first Arm Automotive Compute Subsystem – Zena CSS.
Features and Benefits
One silicon product can deploy a diverse range of software stacks, enabling updates over the extended lifetime of an SDV without hardware barriers.
MMU supports rich operating systems, such as Linux and Adaptive AUTOSAR, leveraging a trusted and robust ecosystem for frictionless, low-cost development that can be deployed in real-time processors.
The highest performing real-time processor for functional safety with more than 60% increased pipeline execution and greater core cluster count than previous versions.
A Foundation of Silicon Success
Arm-based chips, device architectures, and technologies, orchestrate the performance of everything that makes modern life possible.
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 portfolio is a collection of Arm products that have been through various and rigorous levels of functional safety systematic flows and development.
Armv8-R Architecture
The Armv8-R architecture improves the flexibility of the memory protection unit (MPU), significantly speeding up context-switching time. It also allows multiple guest operating systems to be efficiently hosted on a single processor.
Arm Neon Technology
Neon technology is an advanced SIMD architecture extension for the Arm Cortex-A and Arm Cortex-R series processors. The architecture extension improves performance across many applications, including ML.
Explore Products and Technologies

Cortex-A720AE
Cortex-A720AE is the highest performance Cortex-A processor for safety-critical tasks. It is designed to meet the most complex and demanding compute and functional safety needs in next-generation SDVs.

Cortex-A520AE
The high-efficiency Armv9.2 Cortex-A520AE CPU for safety-critical applications brings power efficiency in the smallest silicon footprint and delivers enhanced support for ISO 26262 ASIL B and ASIL D applications.

GIC-720AE
Enabling functional safety applications up to ASIL D, Arm CoreLink GIC-720AE delivers all of the capabilities of GIC-700, supporting both real-time and applications processors, together with added functional safety features and mixed-criticality workloads.

Software Test Libraries
With flexible execution scheduling to minimize the run-time impact on applications, Arm Software Test Libraries provide diagnostic coverage to address functional safety requirements for ISO 26262 systems.
Where Innovation and Ideas Come to Life
Software-Defined Vehicles
The automotive industry is rapidly evolving with automation, electrification, and a focus on software-driven user experiences. Today’s high-end vehicles run over 100 million lines of code, and Arm is working with industry leaders to standardize safety, integrate AI, and drive innovation across the software-defined vehicle landscape.
Functional Safety for Cars
Functional safety now extends across zone controllers, ADAS, and AI-driven autonomous systems. As vehicles grow more complex, Arm’s Cortex-R82AE supports the highest level of automotive safety required for the control computation and advanced safety islands within these systems.
Automotive Cyber Security
Automotive cybersecurity focuses on robust system architectures, standards, and trust to protect assets in connected, software-defined vehicles, offering protection for the next-generation of vehicles.
Talk with an Expert
New vehicle architectures, electrification, autonomy, and the flexible deployment of software over the lifetime of the vehicle are all placing new demands on the compute requirements. Find out how Arm Cortex-R82AE processors can support your future automotive requirements.
Cortex-R82AE Resources
News
Blogs
- Arm’s Broadest Ever Automotive Enhanced IP Portfolio Designed for the Future of Computing in Vehicles
- Virtual Platforms from Arm and Partners Available Now to Accelerate and Transform Automotive Development
- Ecosystem Collaborations Bring Full Stack Software Solutions to Develop Leading-edge Automotive Applications From Day One
- Functional Safety Compute for the Software-defined Vehicle
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