The Vector Floating-Point (VFP) coprocessor, together with associated support code, provides single-precision and double-precision floating-point arithmetic, as defined by ANSI/IEEE Std. 754-1985 IEEE Standard for Binary Floating-Point Arithmetic. This document is referred to as the IEEE 754 standard in this chapter. There is a summary of the standard in the floating-point chapter in RealView Developer Kit v2.2 Compiler and Libraries Guide.

Short vectors of up to eight single-precision or four double-precision numbers are handled particularly efficiently. Most arithmetic instructions can be used on these vectors, enabling single-instruction, multiple-data (SIMD) parallelism. In addition, the floating-point load and store instructions have multiple register forms, enabling vectors to be transferred to and from memory efficiently.

For more details of the vector floating-point coprocessor, see ARM Architecture Reference Manual.