u-boot/doc/README.N1213
Macpaul Lin afc1ce8288 doc/README: documents and readme for NDS32 arch
Documents and READMEs for NDS32 architecture.
It patch also provides usage of SoC AG101 and board ADP-AG101.

Signed-off-by: Macpaul Lin <macpaul@andestech.com>
2011-10-22 00:54:45 +02:00

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N1213 is a configurable hard/soft core of NDS32's N12 CPU family.
Features
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CPU Core
- 16-/32-bit mixable instruction format.
- 32 general-purpose 32-bit registers.
- 8-stage pipeline.
- Dynamic branch prediction.
- 32/64/128/256 BTB.
- Return address stack (RAS).
- Vector interrupts for internal/external.
interrupt controller with 6 hardware interrupt signals.
- 3 HW-level nested interruptions.
- User and super-user mode support.
- Memory-mapped I/O.
- Address space up to 4GB.
Memory Management Unit
- TLB
- 4/8-entry fully associative iTLB/dTLB.
- 32/64/128-entry 4-way set-associati.ve main TLB.
- TLB locking support
- Optional hardware page table walker.
- Two groups of page size support.
- 4KB & 1MB.
- 8KB & 1MB.
Memory Subsystem
- I & D cache.
- Virtually indexed and physically tagged.
- Cache size: 8KB/16KB/32KB/64KB.
- Cache line size: 16B/32B.
- Set associativity: 2-way, 4-way or direct-mapped.
- Cache locking support.
- I & D local memory (LM).
- Size: 4KB to 1MB.
- Bank numbers: 1 or 2.
- Optional 1D/2D DMA engine.
- Internal or external to CPU core.
Bus Interface
- Synchronous/Asynchronous AHB bus: 0, 1 or 2 ports.
- Synchronous High speed memory port.
(HSMP): 0, 1 or 2 ports.
Debug
- JTAG debug interface.
- Embedded debug module (EDM).
- Optional embedded program tracer interface.
Miscellaneous
- Programmable data endian control.
- Performance monitoring mechanism.