TMS320C44
DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSOR
SPRS031B – AUGUST 1994 – REVISED DECEMBER 1995
PDB PACKAGE
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Highest Performance Floating-Point Digital
Signal Processor (DSP)
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– TMS320C44-60:
304
229
33-ns Instruction Cycle Time,
330 MOPS, 60 MFLOPS,
30 MIPS, 336M Bytes/s
1
228
– TMS320C44-50:
40-ns Instruction Cycle Time
Four Communication Ports
Six-Channel Direct Memory Address (DMA)
Coprocessor
Single-Cycle Conversion to and From
IEEE-754 Floating-Point Format
Single Cycle, 1/x, 1/√x
Source-Code Compatible With ’320C3x and
’320C4x
Single-Cycle 40-Bit Floating-Point,
32-Bit Integer Multipliers
Twelve 40-Bit Registers, Eight Auxiliary
Registers, 14 Control Registers,
and Two Timers
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IEEE-1149.1 (JTAG) Boundary-Scan
Compatible
76
153
77
152
Two Identical External Data and Address
Buses Supporting Shared Memory
Systems and High Data-Rate,
Single-Cycle Transfers
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SeePin Assignments table and Pin Functions table for location
and description of all pins.
– High Port-Data Rate of 120M Bytes/s
(TMS320C44-60) (Each Bus)
– 128M-Byte Program/Data/Peripheral
Address Space
– Memory-Access Request for Fast,
Intelligent Bus Arbitration
– Separate Address-Bus, Data-Bus, and
Control-Enable Pins
– Four Sets of Memory-Control Signals
Support Different Speed Memories in
Hardware
IDLE2 Clock-Stop Power-Down Mode
Communication-Port-Direction Pin
On-Chip Program Cache and
Dual-Access/Single-Cycle RAM for
Increased Memory-Access Performance
– 512-Byte Instruction Cache
– 8K Bytes of Single-Cycle Dual-Access
Program or Data RAM
– ROM-Based Boot Loader Supports
Program Bootup Using 8-, 16-, or 32-Bit
Memories or One of the Communication
Ports
304-Pin Plastic Quad Flatpack
(PDB Suffix)
Fabricated Using 0.72-µm Enhanced
Performance Implanted CMOS (EPIC )
Technology by Texas Instruments (TI )
Separate Internal Program-, Data-, and
DMA-Coprocessor Buses for Support of
Massive Concurrent I/O of Program and
Data, Thereby Maximizing Sustained CPU
Performance
Software-Communication-Port Reset
NMI With Bus-Grant Feature
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Texas Instruments semiconductor products and disclaimers thereto appears at the end of this data sheet.
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IEEE Standard 1149.1–1990 Standard Test-Access Port and Boundary-Scan Architecture
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Copyright 1995, Texas Instruments Incorporated
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