Industry's First General-Purpose 32-bit RISC-V MCU Core Expands Design Freedom
Daryl Khoo, Renesas
Vendor:
CloudBEAR, LLC
Category:
MCU
32-bit RISC-V microcontroller
32-bit RISC-V microcontroller.
Overview
32-bit RISC-V microcontroller. Leading performance in class with optimized power consumption and area.
Key features
- Configurable instruction set architecture:
- 32-bit RISC-V with 32 integer registers (I extension)
- Integer multiplication and division (M extension)
- Compressed mode for better code density (C extension)
- Atomic operation support (A extension)
- IEEE 754-2008 compliant single precision floating point (F extension)
- IEEE 754-2008 compliant double precision floating point (D extension)
- User-level interrupt support (N extension)
- Bit manipulation instructions support (B extension)
- Scalar cryptography instructions support (K extension)
- Digital signal processing instructions support (P extension)
- Machine and User modes
- 2-3-stage pipeline
- Configurable branch predictor
- Static: may be used to optimize area
- Dynamic (micro-BTB): may be used to optimize performance
- Optional instruction cache to accelerate access to slow memory
- Configurable interrupt subsystem
- Platform Level Interrupt Controller (PLIC)
- Core Local Interruptor (CLINT): timer + software
- Local interrupt support to provide fast handling
- Core Local Interrupt Controller (CLIC)
- Non-Maskable Interrupts (NMIs)
- ECC memory protection (SEC-DED)
- Physical memory protection
- Integrated debug controller including HW breakpoints
- System bus access
- Compact JTAG support
- Trace support
- Power management support
- Configurable external interface: AHB-lite, AXI4
- Performance
- 1.83 DMIPS/MHz
- 4.0 CoreMark/MHz
- Frequency
- Up to 700 MHz (TSMC, 28nm HPC+, 9t, SVT, SSG corner)
Block Diagram
BM-310 block diagram
Files
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Specifications
Identity
Part Number
BM-310
Vendor
CloudBEAR, LLC
Provider
CloudBEAR, LLC
HQ:
Russia
CloudBEAR company presents on the market a wide range of processor IP of different classes, compatible with RISC-V instruction system: from microcontroller level to high-performance processors with Linux support and the ability to customize for user tasks. The company's products include the BM-series of cores for microcontroller applications, BR-series for embedded systems requiring high real-time performance, and the BI series of Linux-enabled cores.
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