TigerSHARC refers to a family of microprocessors currently manufactured by Analog Devices Inc (ADI). It is superscalar and features data-parallelism in the form of short-vector SIMD and subword (16-bit) parallelism (SWAR). It consists of:

• Two separate computation blocks (CompBlocks) each with 32 general-purpose registers and their own ALU, multiplier, and shifter; 256-bit read and 128-bit write bus access

• Two integer ALUs (JALU, KALU) each with 32 registers; mainly intended for address generation, but is also capable of general integer arithmetic; 32-bit data bus

• A sequencer with 128-entry 4-way associative branch target buffer; 128-bit data bus

• Three separate internal memory banks (SRAM)

• External port with DMA

See also

• SHARC

• Blackfin

References

External links

• TigerSHARC processor website