ADSP-2126x SHARC Processor Hardware Reference
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Introduction
The following sections summarize the features of each functional block in
the ADSP-2126x architecture.
Processor Core
The processor core of the ADSP-2126x consists of two processing ele-
ments (each with three computation units and data register file), a
program sequencer, two data address generators, a timer, and an instruc-
tion cache. All digital signal processing occurs in the processor core.
Processing Elements
The processor core contains two processing elements: PEx and PEy. Each
element contains a data register file and three independent computation
units: an arithmetic logic unit (ALU), a multiplier with an 80-bit
fixed-point accumulator, and a shifter. For meeting a wide variety of pro-
cessing needs, the computation units process data in three formats: 32-bit
fixed-point, 32-bit floating-point, and 40-bit floating-point. The float-
ing-point operations are single-precision IEEE-compatible. The 32-bit
floating-point format is the standard IEEE format, whereas the 40-bit
extended-precision format has eight additional Least Significant Bits
(LSBs) of mantissa for greater accuracy.
The ALU performs a set of arithmetic and logic operations on both
fixed-point and floating-point formats. The multiplier performs float-
ing-point or fixed-point multiplication and fixed-point
multiply/accumulate or multiply/cumulative-subtract operations. The
shifter performs logical and arithmetic shifts, bit manipulation, bit-wise
field deposit and extraction, and exponent derivation operations on 32-bit
operands. These computation units complete all operations in a single
cycle; there is no computation pipeline. The output of any unit may serve
as the input of any unit on the next cycle. All units are connected in paral-
lel, rather than serially. In a multifunction computation, the ALU and
multiplier perform independent, simultaneous operations.
Summary of Contents for ADSP-21261 SHARC
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Page 58: ...Differences From Previous SHARCs 1 18 ADSP 2126x SHARC Processor Hardware Reference ...
Page 112: ...Secondary Processing Element PEy 2 54 ADSP 2126x SHARC Processor Hardware Reference ...
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Page 204: ...DAG Instruction Summary 4 26 ADSP 2126x SHARC Processor Hardware Reference ...
Page 322: ...Setting Up DMA 7 32 ADSP 2126x SHARC Processor Hardware Reference ...
Page 436: ...SPORT Programming Examples 9 86 ADSP 2126x SHARC Processor Hardware Reference ...
Page 521: ...ADSP 2126x SHARC Processor Hardware Reference 11 31 Input Data Port rts IDP_ISR end ...
Page 522: ...Input Data Port Programming Example 11 32 ADSP 2126x SHARC Processor Hardware Reference ...
Page 590: ...Timer Programming Examples 14 20 ADSP 2126x SHARC Processor Hardware Reference ...
Page 796: ...I O Processor Registers A 174 ADSP 2126x SHARC Processor Hardware Reference ...
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Page 846: ...Index I 36 ADSP 2126x SHARC Processor Hardware Reference ...