Coldfire Microprocessor and Microcontrollers
The ColdFireŽ family combines both benefits of CISCs and RISCs worlds
by keeping the same architecture that most customers are familiar
and comfortable with, but offering a much higher performance than
CISC. ColdFireŽ processors are based on the concept of a variable-length
reduced instruction set (RISC) architecture.
By utilizing a variable-length instruction set, system designers
will realize a significant system-level advantage over conventional
RISC fixed-length instructions. The ColdFireŽ support of variable-length
instructions provides denser code and less memory usage than any
fixed-length RISC machines available today. Although many ColdFireŽ
operations involve efficient 16 bit opcodes, the instruction length
can be one, two or three 16 bit words depending on the addressing
modes used by the instruction.
When cost-sensitive applications require significant control processing
for file management, connectivity, data buffering and user interface,
as well as signal processing in a variety of key markets such as security,
imaging, networking, gaming and healthcare monitoring, ColdFireŽ
microcontroller devices with numerous on-chip I/O peripherals and
memory are the ideal solutions for such applications.
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