Core goes super. (leading edge).(SuperH SH5-100 microprocessor core)(Product Announcement)

EDN, April, 2002 by Cravotta, Robert

SUPERH's SH5-100 SERIES 64-bit processor core has a floating-point unit, SIMD (single-instruction-multiple-data) instructions, and on-chip debugging. This core targets interactive multimedia applications running an operating system such as Windows CE, VxWorks, Linux, QNX, Nucleus , OS-9, and JavaOS. The core supports dual-mode operation using 16- and 32-bit instructions and can dynamically switch between these modes on a branch instruction. The SHcompact mode, a 16-bit encoded, fixed-length instruction set, supports higher code density and is compatible with user-mode legacy code from the SH-3 and SH-4 architectures. The SHmedia mode, a 32-bit, encoded, fixed-length instruction set, supports integer, floating-point, packed arithmetic, and SIMD operations.

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