RM5231™ Microprocessor with 32-Bit System Bus Data Sheet

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Document ID: PMC-2002165, Issue 1

Table of Contents

Legal Information ...........................................................................................................................2

Revision History .............................................................................................................................3

Document Conventions .................................................................................................................4

Table of Contents ..........................................................................................................................5

List of Figures ................................................................................................................................7

List of Tables .................................................................................................................................8

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Features ..................................................................................................................................9

2

Block Diagram .......................................................................................................................10

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Hardware Overview ...............................................................................................................11

3.1

Superscalar Dispatch ...................................................................................................11

3.2

CPU Registers .............................................................................................................11

3.3

Pipeline ........................................................................................................................11

3.4

Integer Unit ..................................................................................................................12

3.5

Register File .................................................................................................................12

3.6

ALU ..............................................................................................................................12

3.7

Integer Multiply/Divide ..................................................................................................12

3.8

Floating-Point Co-Processor ........................................................................................13

3.9

Floating-Point Unit .......................................................................................................13

3.10 Floating-Point General Register File ............................................................................15

3.11 System Control Co-processor (CP0) ............................................................................15

3.12 System Control Co-Processor Registers .....................................................................15

3.13 Virtual to Physical Address Mapping ............................................................................16

3.14 Joint TLB ......................................................................................................................17

3.15 Instruction TLB .............................................................................................................18

3.16 Data TLB ......................................................................................................................18

3.17 Cache Memory .............................................................................................................18

3.18 Instruction Cache .........................................................................................................18

3.19 Data Cache ..................................................................................................................19

3.20 Write Buffer ..................................................................................................................20

3.21 System Interface ..........................................................................................................21

3.22 System Address/Data Bus ...........................................................................................21

3.23 System Command Bus ................................................................................................21

3.24 Handshake Signals ......................................................................................................22

3.25 Non-overlapping System Interface ...............................................................................22

3.26 Enhanced Write Modes ................................................................................................23

3.27 External Requests ........................................................................................................24

3.28 Interrupt Handling ........................................................................................................24

3.29 Standby Mode ..............................................................................................................24

3.30 JTAG Interface .............................................................................................................24