CoreMP7 Brochure - Actel - #1

ARM7 is the most widely used 32-bit RISC microprocessor—billions have been shipped. Today, embedded designs are moving from Application Specific Signal Processors (ASSPs) and ASICs to FPGAs to reduce system cost and time to market. At the same time, the level of processing required is increasing dramatically due to high-performance applications such as communications, video, and audio. Designed for cost and power-sensitive applications, CoreMP7 provides small size and industry standard 32-bit performance in Actel Flash FPGAs.

CoreMP7 is a soft IP core version of the popular ARM7TDMI-S that has been optimized to maximize speed and minimize size in Actel FPGAs. CoreMP7 executes the ARMv4T instruction-set architecture with Thumb extensions. The processor has a 3-stage pipeline, 32-bit ALU, 32-bit register file,

a 32-bit external address and

data bus interface, and a JTAG debug interface with support for on-chip trace.