The Arm Cortex-R52 delivers the highest level of integrated capability for functional safety of any Arm processor. It builds on the capabilities of the Cortex-R5 processor to meet the rising performance needs of advanced real-time embedded systems.

Cortex-R52 has been designed specifically to address the needs of functional safety. It has been developed within a process to fulfil IEC 61508 SIL 3 and ISO 26262 ASIL D requirements enabling it to be readily adopted for highly dependable systems where safety is critical.

Cortex-R52 implements hardware to simplify the integration of increasingly complex real-time software environments while providing the robust separation of software necessary to protect safety-critical code. As the first Arm v8-R processor, Cortex-R52 introduces an extra privilege level which provides support for a hypervisor.

This is all achieved without impacting the determinism needed for real time systems and while providing higher levels of performance from single and multicore configurations.