Designing SOCs with Configured Cores

6.7. Diamond-Core Ports and Queues

In addition to the various local buses described above, most of the Diamond processor cores have a pair of 32-bit I/O ports, a pair of 32-bit I/O queue interfaces, or both the I/O-port and queue-interface pairs. (Detailed port and queue-interface discussions appear in Chapter 4.) The Diamond processor cores’ ports and queue interfaces allow fast I/O transactions to occur without the use of a multi-cycle bus transaction—that’s why port and queue I/O is so fast.

The 108Mini and 212GP processor cores each have a 32-bit input and a 32-bit output port. One processor instruction can read the input port and another instruction places data on the output port. Both the 330HiFi and 545CK processor cores have a 32-bit ...