The V4e is designed to provide hardware support for on-chip multiprocessing for systems requiring
intensive numeric processing capabilities beyond that provided by a single processor. Designs
implemented in 0.18 micron technology are expected to provide 350 Dhrystone 2.1 MIPS of processing power
per core when operating at 225 MHz, while migrating to 0.13 micron technology boosts the performance
level to 333 MHz and up to 510 Dhrystone 2.1 MIPS per core.
The V4e is an IP Core which will be
integrated into a variety of custom and standard products from Freescale. There currently are no plans
for a standalone CPU version.
High performance IP Core for the 68K/ColdFire family
Partial superscalar execution
Harvard memory architecture resulting in enhanced
bandwidth
Support for variable sized instruction caches and data caches
Minimal
change-of-flow program execution time via sophisticated 2 level branch acceleration
Virtual
memory management unit (MMU)
Address translation inside the core complex
Process
partitioning
Expanded debug capabilities
Harvard, dual 32-entry, fully-associative
TLBs
Floating point unit (FPU)
Double-precision implementation of the
MC68060 FP ISA
Concurrent execution between Operand Execution Pipeline & FPU
IEEE-754
compliant
Enhanced multiply accumulate unit (MAC)
Single-cycle issue,
optimized for 32x32 MACs
Four 48-bit accumulators
Expanded programming model
Dual-port RAM with user-defined address permutation
