Memory and the instruction cache, Chapter 4 – Texas Instruments TMS320C3x User Manual

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Memory and the Instruction Cache

The ’C3x provides a total memory space of 16M (million) 32-bit words that contain
program, data, and I/O space. Two RAM blocks of 1K

32 bits each (available

on the ’C30 and ’C31) or two RAM blocks of 256

32 bits (available on the ’C32)

and a ROM block of 4K

32 bits (available only on the ’C30) or boot loader

(available on the ’C31 and the ’C32) permit two CPU accesses in a single cycle.

A 64

32-bit instruction cache stores often-repeated sections of code, greatly

reducing the number of off-chip accesses and allowing code to be stored off-chip
in slower, lower-cost memories.

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4.1

Memory

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4.2

Reset/Interrupt/Trap Vector Map

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4.3

Instruction Cache

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Chapter 4

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