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10 Communications Processor Introduction (Continued)

Simultaneous access to both data and program memory

and instruction pipelining greatly enhance the speed per-

formance of the BCP making it well suited for real-time pro-

cessing The pipeline allows the next instruction to be re-

trieved from program memory while the current instruction is

being executed

13 TIMING INTRODUCTION

The timing of all CPU operations instruction execution and

memory access is related to the CPU clock This clock is

usually generated by a crystal and the internal oscillator

with optional divide by two circuitry The period of the result-

ing CPU clock is referred to as a T-state for example a

20 MHz CPU clock yields a 50 ns T-state Most CPU func-

tions such as arithmetic and logical operations shifts and

rotates and register moves require only two T-states

Branching instructions and data memory accesses require

three to four T-states

Each memory system has a separate programmable num-

ber of wait states to allow the use of slower memory devic-

es Instruction memory wait states are inserted into all in-

structions as shown in

Figure 1-5

thus they affect the

overall speed of program execution Instruction memory

wait states can also apply when the Remote Interface is

loading a program into instruction memory Data memory

wait states are only inserted into data memory access in-

structions hence there is less degradation in overall pro-

gram execution Refer to the Timing section for detailed ex-

amples of all BCP instruction and data memory timing

TLF9336 – C1

FIGURE 1-4 Memory Configuration

TLF9336 – C2

FIGURE 1-5 Effect of Memory Wait States on Timing

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