Memory Architecture
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Internal Memory
The processor has three blocks of on-chip memory that provide high
bandwidth access to the core:
• L1 instruction memory, consisting of SRAM and a 4-way set-asso-
ciative cache. This memory is accessed at full processor speed.
• L1 data memory, consisting of SRAM and/or a 2-way set-associa-
tive cache. This memory block is accessed at full processor speed.
• L1 scratchpad RAM, which runs at the same speed as the L1 mem-
ories but is only accessible as data SRAM and cannot be configured
as cache memory.
External Memory
External (off-chip) memory is accessed via the External Bus Interface Unit
(EBIU). This 16-bit interface provides a glueless connection to a bank of
synchronous DRAM (SDRAM) and as many as four banks of asynchro-
nous memory devices including flash memory, EPROM, ROM, SRAM,
and memory-mapped I/O devices.
The PC133-compliant SDRAM controller can be programmed to inter-
face to up to 512M bytes of SDRAM.
The asynchronous memory controller can be programmed to control up
to four banks of devices. Each bank occupies a 1M byte segment regardless
of the size of the devices used, so that these banks are only contiguous if
each is fully populated with 1M byte of memory.
Summary of Contents for Blackfin ADSP-BF537
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