V3 ColdFire Core: Single-Issue + Pipelined Local Bus
The ColdFire 3 core delivers enhancements including a refined instruction prefetch pipeline, branch prediction capabilities, and higher frequencies of operation. These improvements allow the core to provide up to 300% more performance than the ColdFire2/2M core, while increasing the operating system frequency by less than 50%, making it an attractive solution for new designs or upgrades to existing systems. In addition, it includes a high-speed multiply-accumulate unit, dedicated hardware divide, and enhanced debugging capabilities.