Designing SOCs with Configured Cores

6.4. Diamond Standard Series Processor Core Hardware Overview and Comparison

This section highlights the major hardware blocks comprising the Diamond processor cores including the core register file and execution units, load/store units, issue width, external interfaces, and on-chip trace and debug units. Table 6.3 compares the major hardware features included in each Diamond core. Table 6.4 compares several key physical attributes of the six Diamond processor cores.

Table 6.3. Diamond Standard Series processor core feature comparison

Hardware features	108Mini	212GP	232L	570T	330HiFi	545CK
Instruction width (bits)	16/24	16/24	16/24	16/24/64	16/24/64	16/24/64
Multiple instruction issue (static superscalar)	No	No	No	3 or 2 issue	2 issue	3 issue
Local-memory bus width ...