ARM V7 is used for cortex A and cortex R processors. ARM V7 includes optional virtualization technology, and for the processors that include this, hardware division is also supported.

The ARM V7-M architecture is derived from the ARM V7-A, but excludes all the functions that the cortex M cannot use; it does not contain the ARM assembly language, but only Thumb and Thumb-2.

The ARM V6-M architecture was a success and V7-M architecture extended the architecture to enable the full subset of Thumb and Thumb-2 to be used.

Processors based on the ARM V7-M architecture support hardware division, saturated math and an accelerated hardware multiplier.