摘要:
A processor having an arithmetic extension of an instruction set architecture which incorporates a set of high performance floating point operations. The instruction set architecture incorporates a variety of data formats including single precision and double precision data formats, as well as the paired-single data format that allows two simultaneous operations on a pair of operands. The extension includes instructions directed to reduction add, reduction multiply, reciprocal, and reciprocal square root.
摘要:
An apparatus is presented for improving the efficiency of data transfers between devices interconnected over an on-chip system bus a multi-master computer system configuration. Bus efficiency is improved by providing an apparatus for controlling a read-modify-write transaction to an address in a bus slave device that does not suspend essential features of the system bus during the transaction, namely, pipelining and transaction splitting. The apparatus includes transaction control logic in a bus master device and transaction response logic in a bus slave device. The transaction control logic provides a write barrier command from the bus master device over the on-chip system bus to the bus slave device. The transaction response logic receives the write barrier command, and precludes execution of future transactions to the address within the bus slave device until completion of the read-modify-write transaction while allowing execution of transactions to other addresses within the bus slave device to complete.
摘要:
A processor having a compare extension of an instruction set architecture which incorporates a set of high performance floating point operations. The instruction set architecture incorporates a variety of data formats including single precision and double precision data formats, as well as the paired-single data format that allows two simultaneous operations on a pair of operands. The extension includes instructions directed to a magnitude compare of floating point numbers and conversions between a pair of 32-bit fixed point integers and paired-single floating point format.
摘要:
An on-chip split transaction system bus having separate address and data portions is provided. The system bus contains separate address and data buses for initiating and tracking out-of-order transactions on either or both of the address or data portions of the bus. The system bus provides communication via a bus interface that includes split transaction tracking and control to establish transaction ID's for each transaction initiated by the bus interface, and to determine whether data appearing on the data portion of the system bus is associated with one of its pending transactions. The bus interface also contains flow control logic to determine whether devices that are to be read from, or written to, by the bus interface, have resources (buffers) available to respond to the transactions. If the resources are available, the flow control logic allows the transactions to proceed, and adjusts its counters to reflect the use of the resources. If the resources are not available, the flow control logic causes the transactions to wait until the resources become available.
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A system and method for providing efficient block transfer operations through a test access port uses a Fastdata register. The Fastdata register, in part, emulates a pending process access bit (“PrAcc”) typically found in a Control register associated with the test access port. When a Fastdata access (either a Fastdata upload or a Fastdata download) is requested by a probe coupled to the test access port, the Fastdata register is serially coupled to a data register also associated with the test access port. With these registers so coupled and through the operation of the Fastdata register, downloading and uploading data can be accomplished using a single register operation.
摘要:
A processor having a conditional branch extension of an instruction set architecture which incorporates a set of high performance floating point operations. The instruction set architecture incorporates a variety of data formats including single precision and double precision data formats, as well as the paired-single data format that allows two simultaneous operations on a pair of operands. The extension includes instructions directed to branching if, for example, either one of two condition codes is false or true, if any of three condition codes are false or true, or if any one of four condition codes are false or true.
摘要:
A cache coherency system for an on-chip computing bus is provided. The coherency system contains a coherency credit counter within each master device on the on-chip bus for monitoring the resources available on the bus for coherent transactions, a coherency input buffer for storing coherent transactions, and a cache for storing coherent data. The coherency credit counter tracks coherent transactions pending in a memory controller, and delays coherent transactions from being placed on the bus if coherent resources are not available in the memory controller. When resources become available in the memory controller, the memory controller signals the coherency system in each of the master devices. The coherency system is coupled to a split transaction tracking and control to establish transaction ID's for each coherent transaction initiated by its master device, and presents a transaction ID along with an address portion of each coherent transaction.
摘要:
A processor having a compare extension of an instruction set architecture which incorporates a set of high performance floating point operations. The instruction set architecture incorporates a variety of data formats including single precision and double precision data formats, as well as the paired-single data format that allows two simultaneous operations on a pair of operands. The extension includes instructions directed to a magnitude compare of floating point numbers and conversions between a pair of 32-bit fixed point integers and paired-single floating point format.
摘要:
An on-chip split transaction system bus having separate address and data portions is provided. The system bus contains separate address and data buses for initiating and tracking transactions on either or both of the address or data portions of the bus. The system bus provides communication via a bus interface that includes split transaction tracking and control to establish transaction ID's for each transaction initiated by the bus interface, and to determine whether data appearing on the data portion of the system bus is associated with one of its pending transactions. The bus interface also contains a data release mechanism to reduce turn around time of the data bus between competing data bus masters. The data release mechanism is incorporated within the bus interface of all data bus masters. A data bus master drives data release during the last cycle of a data transaction. Another data bus masters (awaiting mastership) receives the data release and begin driving the data bus one cycle after seeing data release.
摘要:
A method for tracing a multi-tasking embedded pipelined processor includes executing compiled code including trace controls. Tracing is initiated when the execution of the compiled code is initiated. Tracing is stopped when execution of the compiled code is completed. A trace record is formed during tracing. The trace record includes a processor mode indication, application space identity value and an instruction architecture set mode indication.