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LPC2364_66_68_1

Preliminary data sheet

Rev. 01 — 22 September 2006

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Philips Semiconductors

LPC2364/2366/2368

Fast communication chip

The LPC2364/66/68 implements two AHB buses in order to allow the Ethernet block to

operate without interference caused by other system activity. The primary AHB, referred

to as AHB1, includes the Vectored Interrupt Controller, and General Purpose DMA

Controller.

The second AHB, referred to as AHB2, includes only the Ethernet block and an

associated 16 kB SRAM. In addition, a bus bridge is provided that allows the secondary

AHB to be a bus master on AHB1, allowing expansion of Ethernet buffer space into

off-chip memory or unused space in memory residing on AHB1.

In summary, bus masters with access to AHB1 are the ARM7 itself, the General Purpose

DMA function, and the Ethernet block (via the bus bridge from AHB2). Bus masters with

access to AHB2 are the ARM7 and the Ethernet block.

AHB peripherals are allocated a 2 MB range of addresses at the very top of the 4 GB

ARM memory space. Each AHB peripheral is allocated a 16 kB address space within the

AHB address space. Lower speed peripheral functions are connected to the APB bus.

The AHB to APB bridge interfaces the APB bus to the AHB bus. APB peripherals are also

allocated a 2 MB range of addresses, beginning at the 3.5 GB address point. Each APB

peripheral is allocated a 16 kB address space within the APB address space.

The ARM7TDMI-S processor is a general purpose 32-bit microprocessor, which offers

high performance and very low power consumption. The ARM architecture is based on

Reduced Instruction Set Computer (RISC) principles, and the instruction set and related

decode mechanism are much simpler than those of microprogrammed Complex

Instruction Set Computers. This simplicity results in a high instruction throughput and

impressive real-time interrupt response from a small and cost-effective processor core.

Pipeline techniques are employed so that all parts of the processing and memory systems

can operate continuously. Typically, while one instruction is being executed, its successor

is being decoded, and a third instruction is being fetched from memory.

The ARM7TDMI-S processor also employs a unique architectural strategy known as

Thumb, which makes it ideally suited to high-volume applications with memory

restrictions, or applications where code density is an issue.

The key idea behind Thumb is that of a super-reduced instruction set. Essentially, the

ARM7TDMI-S processor has two instruction sets:

• The standard 32-bit ARM set.

• A 16-bit Thumb set.

The Thumb set’s 16-bit instruction length allows it to approach twice the density of

standard ARM code while retaining most of the ARM’s performance advantage over a

traditional 16-bit processor using 16-bit registers. This is possible because Thumb code

operates on the same 32-bit register set as ARM code.

Thumb code is able to provide up to 65 % of the code size of ARM, and 160 % of the

performance of an equivalent ARM processor connected to a 16-bit memory system.

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