BR-352
Gen#2 of 32-bit RISC-V compact high-performance embedded core.
Improved performance while keeping power/area the same with Gen#1.
Ideal for high performance microcontrollers, real-time control, DSP.
Key Features
- Configurable instruction set architecture:
- 32-bit RISC-V with 32 integer registers (I extension)
- Integer multiplication and division (M extension)
- Atomic operation support (A extension)
- Compressed mode for better code density (C extension)
- IEEE 754-2008 compliant single precision floating point (F extension)
- IEEE 754-2008 compliant double precision floating point (D extension)
- User mode interrupt handlers (N extension)
- Bit manipulation instructions support (B extension)
- Scalar cryptography instructions support (K extension)
- Digital signal processing instructions support (P extension)
- Dual instruction issue
- Machine and User modes
- 9 stage in-order pipeline
- Advanced branch predictor
- L0 micro BTB
- L1 main BTB
- BHT
- RAS
- Indirect BTB
- Short forward branches
- Decoupled predict/fetch reduce bubbles and tolerate I-cache missses
- Non-blocking branch predictor acts as I-cache prefetcher
- Late ALU for load-to-use latency reduction
- Load Store Unit with out-of-pipeline processing capability
- Configurable memory subsystem: L1 I/D-caches, TCMs
- Front-port to access TCMs by external masters
- Configurable interrupt subsystem
- Platform Level Interrupt Controller (PLIC)
- Core Local Interruptor (CLINT): timer + software interrupts
- Local interrupt support to provide fast handling
- Core Local Interrupt Controller (CLIC)
- Non-Maskable Interrupts (NMIs)
- ECC memory protection (SEC-DED)
- Enhanced physical memory protection (Smepmp support)
- Integrated debug controller including HW breakpoints
- System bus access
- Compact JTAG support
- Trace support
- Power management support
- AXI/AHB configurable interfaces
- Performance
- 2.47 DMIPS/MHz
- 5.84 CoreMark/MHz
- Frequency (full place and route)
- 1 GHz (TSMC, 28nm HPC+, 7-track, SSG corner)
Memory subsystem
Support of configurable TCMs address ranges. TCM arbiter allows TCMs be accessible by fetch, load/store and via front-port. Optional instruction/data caches may be used with the following features:
- N-way set associative
- Configurable cache line
- Prefetcher
- Priority chunk support
Power management
Core completes all activity including cache requests and enter WFI mode. Support of external power management unit to provide clock gating and memory sleep.
Security
Physical memory protection (PMP) is key mechanism to provide isolation between different software components and limit their access to hardware. Up to 64 PMP regions are supported in BR-352.
Multi-core support
Preintegrated and tested subsystem is available. Flexible bus infrastructure to connect the cores itself and external world is supported. Different inter core communication mechanisms are possible:
- Software interrupts in CLINT
- Atomic in neighbor core TCMs
Development Tools
Complete set of RISC-V tools for fast and convenient software development. Compatible with upstream standard development and debug tools: OpenOCD, GCC, GDB, Eclipse. CloudBEAR also provides pre-configured Eclipse-based IDE with prebuilt toolchain and example projects for easy development start.
3rd Party Development Tools
IAR Embedded Workbench® offers excellent optimization technology to ensure developers that the application fits the required needs and optimizes the utilization of on-board memory and necessary speed. In this first release code density is already small comparing to other available tools. However, more optimizations are expected in future releases to generate even smaller code.
SEGGER Embedded Studio for RISC-V is the development environment for devices based on the open RISC-V architecture. Embedded Studio offers a complete solution to develop and debug your application. It enables you to use the complete development solution, including toolchain, optimized run-time library, core simulator and hardware debugging with the J-Link debug probes.
TRACE32® debugger for RISC-V. Lauterbach is the world's largest producer of complete, modular and upgradeable microprocessor development tools worldwide with experience in making world class debuggers and real-time trace since 1979.
Compatible Debug Probes
BR-352 has integrated Debug module (compliant with RISC-V specification) that allows to use most of standard debug probes. The following debug probes are verified:
