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80960JD

PRODUCT PREVIEW

The BCU’s features include:

• Multiplexed external bus to minimize pin count

• 32-, 16- and 8-bit bus widths to simplify I/O

interfaces

• External ready control for address-to-data, data-to-

data and data-to-next-address wait state types

• Support for big or little endian byte ordering to

facilitate the porting of existing program code

• Unaligned bus accesses performed transparently

• Three-deep load/store queue to decouple the bus

from the core

Upon reset, the 80960JD conducts an internal self

test. Then, before executing its first instruction, it

performs

external

bus

confidence test

performing a checksum on the first words of the

initialization boot record (IBR).

The user may examine the contents of the caches at

any time by executing special cache control instruc-

tions.

2.3

Timer Unit

The timer unit (TU) contains two independent 32-bit

timers which are capable of counting at several clock

rates and generating interrupts. Each is programmed

by use of the TU registers. These memory-mapped

registers are addressable on 32-bit boundaries. The

timers have a single-shot mode and auto-reload

capabilities for continuous operation. Each timer has

an independent interrupt request to the 80960JD’s

interrupt controller. The TU can generate a fault

when unauthorized writes from user mode are

detected. Clock prescaling is supported.

2.4

Priority Interrupt Controller

A programmable interrupt controller manages up to

240 external sources through an 8-bit external

interrupt port. Alternatively, the interrupt inputs may

be configured for individual edge- or level-triggered

inputs. The interrupt unit (IU) also accepts interrupts

from the two on-chip timer channels and a single

Non-Maskable Interrupt (NMI) pin. Interrupts are

serviced according to their priority levels relative to

the current process priority.

Low interrupt latency is critical to many embedded

applications. As part of its highly flexible interrupt

mechanism,

the

80960JD

exploits

several

techniques to minimize latency:

• Interrupt vectors and interrupt handler routines can

be reserved on-chip

• Register frames for high-priority interrupt handlers

can be cached on-chip

• The interrupt stack can be placed in cacheable

memory space

• Interrupt microcode executes at twice the bus

frequency

2.5

Instruction Set Summary

The 80960Jx adds several new instructions to the

i960 core architecture. The new instructions are:

• Conditional Move

• Conditional Add

• Conditional Subtract

•Byte Swap

•Halt

• Cache Control

• Interrupt Control

Table 1 identifies the instructions that the 80960Jx

supports. Refer to

i960® Jx Microprocessor User’s

Guide (272483) for a detailed description of each

instruction.

2.6

Faults and Debugging

The 80960Jx employs a comprehensive fault model.

The processor responds to faults by making implicit

calls to a fault handling routine. Specific information

collected for each fault allows the fault handler to

diagnose exceptions and recover appropriately.

The processor also has built-in debug capabilities. In

software, the 80960Jx may be configured to detect

as many as seven different trace event types. Alter-

natively, mark and fmark instructions can generate

trace events explicitly in the instruction stream.

Hardware breakpoint registers are also available to

trap on execution and data addresses.

2.7

Low Power Operation

Intel fabricates the 80960Jx using an advanced sub-

micron manufacturing process. The processor’s sub-

micron topology provides the circuit density for

optimal cache size and high operating speeds while

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