FPS6
The FPS6 is a fully 32 bit general purpose CPU featuring single precision floating point, designed to meet the needs of the most demanding embedded systems.
The FPS6 is a modern processor with a high throughput RISC core coupled with a floating point ALU to boost performance. It has a full Harvard architecture.
The instructions are 16 bits in length, with a 16 bit extension when needed (no mode switches necessary) giving excellent code density.
The pipeline features out-of-order execution enabling nearly all integer instructions to execute in a single cycle, including loads and stores.
Interrupts are fully vectored and the architecture ensures a minimum of software overhead in task switches.
The processor was designed to execute high level languages, notably C, with ease.
The software application can be entirely realised in C, interrupt routines included.
The entire GNU GCC toolsuite has been ported to this architecture and is available free of charge.
The FPS6 has the following features:
- All necessary tools are available:
- Eclipse based IDE
- GNU GCC and all utilities ported
- GNU GDB Debugger available
- Debug via JTAG
- All tools available free of charge
- Excellent code density
- 4 GByte address space
- Sixteen 32 bit general purpose registers
- Requires less than 40kgate
- Power efficient
- High throughput
- Most integer instructions are single cycle, including load and store
- A wide range of standard peripherals available
An optional trace buffer is available to make debugging even more rapid and easy. It is fully configurable and captures the key aspects of program execution. It is supported by the tools and can be controlled either via the JTAG interface or by the target CPU.
More details can be found in the datasheet.