A Low-Power Embedded RISC Microprocessor with an Integrated DSP for Mobile Applications(<特集>Special Issue on High-Performance and Low-Power Microprocessors)

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A 32-bit embedded RISC microprocessor core integrating a DSP has been developed using a 0.18μm five-layermetal CMOS technology. The integrated DSP has a single-MAC and exploits CPU resources to reduce hardware. The DSP occupies only 0.5mm^2. The processor core includes a large on-chip 128 kB SRAM called U-memory. A large capacity on-chip memory decreases the amount of traffic with an external memory. And it is effective for low-power and high-performance operation. To realize low-power dissipation for the U-memory access,the active ratio of U-memory's access is reduced. The critical path is a load path from the U-memory, and we optimized the path through the whole chip. The chip achieves 0.79 mA/MHz executing Dhrystone 1.1 at 108 MHz, which is suitable for mobile applications.
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2002-02-01