MSC8144E Reference Manual, Rev. 3
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Freescale
Semiconductor
Overview
1.3
Architecture
The MSC8144E architecture is carefully optimized to achieve the maximum channel density for
a given device area, power, and cost. Also, the MSC8144E is a derivative of the same system
internal platform Freescale uses to implement new DSPs. Therefore, Freescale can swiftly spin
off DSP devices from the same platform and provide the customer with familiar modules and
programming models.
1.4
StarCore SC3400 DSP Subsystem
Figure 1-3 shows the block diagram of the StarCore SC3400 DSP subsystem, which contains
the SC3400 core, the ICache, the DCache, the MMU for task and memory protection and address
translation and two write buffers. In addition, there is an interrupt controller, two timers, a debug
module, and a trace write buffer. The SC3400 core fetches instructions through a 128-bit wide
program bus (P-bus), and it fetches data through two 64-bit wide data buses (Xa-bus and
Xb-bus). After a brief overview of the DSP platform, this section presents a subsection on each
part of the platform.
Figure 1-3. StarCore SC3400 DSP
Subsystem Block Diagram
SC3400
Core
Instruction
Cache
Address
Translation
Task
Protection
Data
Cache
WTB
WBB
EPIC
Interrupts
P-bus
Xa-bus
Xb-bus
DQBus
Debug Support
OCE
TWB
Bus Interface
MMU
Timer
Two Internal Buses
(128 bits wide each)
IQBus
DPU
Summary of Contents for MSC8144E
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