Product Brief
May 1997
Lucent Technologies Inc. 53
Products and Services Overview
Silicon Suite
for ISDN
Advance Information
68K RISC Embedded 32-Bit RISC
Microprocessor
Features
■Functionally equivalent to
Motorola’s ColdFire*
(MCF5202/03)
■Variable-length RISC code density (requires less
memory and slower memory)
■Dynamic bus sizing (32-, 16-, and 8-bit bus support)
■High-performance, nonblocking, on-chip unified
cache:
— Four-way set associative
— 2 Kbyte size
■Optimized for high-level language constructs
■Designed to minimize die size
■16 user-visible 32-bit wide registers
■Supervisor/user modes for system protection
■Vector base register to relocate exception-vector
table
■Debug module including bac kg round deb ug and real-
time debug support
■Low interrupt latency accelerates responsiveness in
real-time applications
■Low-power consumption due to full-static design
logic
■3-state pin
■Single bus clock output
■Compliance with JTAG
IEEE
1149.1
■Fully supported industry-leading third-party tools
developers
■Samples available for system evaluation:
— 100-pin TQFP
*
ColdFire
is a trademark of Motorola, Inc.
Description
The 68K RISC has been optimized for embedded
processing applications. It is based on the concept of
variable-length RISC technology and combines the
architectural simplicity of the 32-bit RISC with a
memory-saving, variable-length instruction set.
By using a variable length instruction set architecture,
the 68K
RISC processor offers designers substantial
system-level advantage over conventional fixed-length
RISC architectures. Since the 68K RISC has a dense
binary code, less v aluab le memory is occupied than for
a fixed-length instruction set RISC processor. This
greater code density results in systems that require
less memory per application, and it enables the use of
slower and less costly memory while still attaining a
given performance level.