80960CA-33, -25, -16
32-BIT HIGH-PERFORMANCE EMBEDDED PROCESSOR
• Two Instructions/Clock Sustained Execution
• Four 59 Mbytes/s DMA Channels with Data Chaining
• Demultiplexed 32-bit Burst Bus with Pipelining
s 32-bit Parallel Architecture
— Two Instructions/clock Execution
— Load/Store Architecture
— Sixteen 32-bit Global Registers
— Sixteen 32-bit Local Registers
— Manipulates 64-bit Bit Fields
— 11 Addressing Modes
— Full Parallel Fault Model
— Supervisor Protection Model
s Fast Procedure Call/Return Model
— Full Procedure Call in 4 Clocks
s On-Chip Register Cache
— Caches Registers on Call/Ret
— Minimum of 6 Frames Provided
— Up to 15 Programmable Frames
s On-Chip Instruction Cache
— 1 Kbyte Two-Way Set Associative
— 128-bit Path to Instruction Sequencer
— Cache-Lock Modes
— Cache-Off Mode
s High Bandwidth On-Chip Data RAM
— 1 Kbyte On-Chip Data RAM
— Sustains 128 bits per Clock Access
s Four On-Chip DMA Channels
— 59 Mbytes/s Fly-by Transfers
— 32 Mbytes/s Two-Cycle Transfers
— Data Chaining
— Data Packing/Unpacking
— Programmable Priority Method
s 32-Bit Demultiplexed Burst Bus
— 128-bit Internal Data Paths to and
from Registers
— Burst Bus for DRAM Interfacing
— Address Pipelining Option
— Fully Programmable Wait States
— Supports 8-, 16- or 32-bit Bus Widths
— Supports Unaligned Accesses
— Supervisor Protection Pin
s Selectable Big or Little Endian Byte
Ordering
s High-Speed Interrupt Controller
— Up to 248 External Interrupts
— 32 Fully Programmable Priorities
— Multi-mode 8-bit Interrupt Port
— Four Internal DMA Interrupts
— Separate, Non-maskable Interrupt Pin
— Context Switch in 750 ns Typical
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© INTEL CORPORATION, 1993
November 1993
Order Number: 270727-006
