LPC5411x
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Product data sheet
Rev. 2.1 — 9 May 2018
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NXP Semiconductors
LPC5411x
32-bit ARM Cortex-M4/M0+ microcontroller
7. Functional
description
7.1 Architectural overview
The ARM Cortex-M4 includes three AHB-Lite buses, one system bus and the I-code and
D-code buses. One bus is dedicated for instruction fetch (I-code), and one bus is
dedicated for data access (D-code). The use of two core buses allows for simultaneous
operations if concurrent operations target different devices.
The LPC5411x uses a multi-layer AHB matrix to connect the ARM Cortex-M4 buses and
other bus masters to peripherals in a flexible manner that optimizes performance by
allowing peripherals that are on different slave ports of the matrix to be accessed
simultaneously by different bus masters.
7.2 ARM Cortex-M4 processor
The ARM Cortex-M4 is a general purpose, 32-bit microprocessor, which offers high
performance and very low power consumption. The ARM Cortex-M4 offers many new
features, including a Thumb-2 instruction set, low interrupt latency, hardware multiply and
divide, interruptable/continuable multiple load and store instructions, automatic state save
and restore for interrupts, tightly integrated interrupt controller with wake-up interrupt
controller, and multiple core buses capable of simultaneous accesses.
A 3-stage pipeline is employed so that all parts of the processing and memory systems
can operate continuously. Typically, while one instruction is being executed, its successor
is being decoded, and a third instruction is being fetched from memory.
7.3 ARM Cortex-M4 integrated Floating Point Unit (FPU)
The FPU fully supports single-precision add, subtract, multiply, divide, multiply and
accumulate, and square root operations. It also provides conversions between fixed-point
and floating-point data formats, and floating-point constant instructions.
The FPU provides floating-point computation functionality that is compliant with the
ANSI/IEEE Std 754-2008, IEEE Standard for Binary Floating-Point Arithmetic, referred to
as the IEEE 754 standard.
7.4 ARM Cortex-M0+ co-processor
The ARM Cortex-M0+ co-processor offers high performance and very low power
consumption. This processor uses a 2-stage pipeline von Neumann architecture and a
small but powerful instruction set providing high-end processing hardware. The processor
includes a single-cycle multiplier, an NVIC with 32 interrupts, and a separate system tick
timer.
7.5 Memory Protection Unit (MPU)
The Cortex-M4 includes a Memory Protection Unit (MPU) which can be used to improve
the reliability of an embedded system by protecting critical data within the user
application.