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TriCore ™ Derivatives ( TC1130, TC1765, TC1766ED, TC1775, TC1796, TC1796ED, TC1767, TC1797, TC1920) - Architectural Overview of the HighEnd 32-Bit Single-Chip Microcontrollers

TriCore ™ is the first single-core 32-bit microcontroller-DSP architecture optimized for real-time embed-ded systems, made by Infineon. TriCore unifies the best of three worlds — real-time capabilities of microcontrollers, the computational prowess of DSPs, and the highest performance/price implementations of RISC load-store architectures.
The architecture supports a uniform, 32-bit address space, with memory-mapped I/O. It allows for a wide range of implementations, ranging from simple scalar to superscalar. Furthermore, the ISA is capable of interacting with different system architectures, including those with multiprocessing.

To support TriCore ™ implementations with 32-bit instructions and simplified instruction fetching, the entire TriCore architecture is represented in 32-bit instruction formats. In addition, the architecture includes 16-bit instruction formats for the most frequently occurring instructions. These instructions significantly reduce code space, lowering memory requirements, system cost, and power consump-tion. Real-time responsiveness is largely determined by interrupt latency and context-switch time. The high-performance architecture minimizes interrupt latency by avoiding long multicycle instructions and by providing a flexible hardware-supported interrupt scheme. Furthermore, the architecture supports fast context switching.

Supported TriCore ™ Derivatives by Universal Debug Engine

Infineon TC11IB
Infineon TC1100
Infineon TC1115
Infineon TC1130
Infineon TC1161
Infineon TC1162
Infineon TC1163
Infineon TC1164
Infineon TC1165
Infineon TC1166
Infineon TC1765
Infineon TC1766, TC1766ED
Infineon TC1775
Infineon TC1796, TC1796ED
Infineon TC1910
Infineon TC1912
Infineon TC1920

TriCore ™ Architecture Feature Overview

32-bit architecture
4-GByte unified data, program, and input/output address space
16-/32-bit instructions for reduced code size
Low interrupt latency
Fast automatic context switching
Multiply-accumulate unit
Saturating integer arithmetic
Bit handling
Packed data operations
Zero-overhead loop
Flexible power management
Byte and bit addressing
Little-endian byte ordering
Support for big- and little-endian byte ordering at bus interface
Precise exceptions
Flexible interrupt prioritization scheme

UDE - Universal Debug Engine

UDE - Universal Debug Engine - is a flexible debug platform with Multi-core debugging. This development workbench is available for Infineon’s 16-bit architecture SAB C16x, C166CBC, C166S V2, the 32-bit TriCore TC1766, TC1796 as well the ST10F16x, ST10F26x and ST10F280 architecture from STMicroelectronics, the ARM7, ARM9, PowerPC and XScale derivatives.

It lets you organize your projects, supports you while building applications and lets you run and test your software in a convenient and cost-efficient way. UDE represents a completely new debugger architecture and tool concept based on a customizable set of standard components and core specific add-ons.

JTAG is fully supported by UDE offering direct high-speed access to the MCUs internal units (registers, control unit...) and features like breakpoints, stepping in ROM/FLASH as well as complex trigger conditions without any external hardware or software resources. OCDS L2 and MCDS instruction trace capability is available for members of the TriCore family. ETM and ETB instruction trace is available for ARM derivatives. Target ROM monitor and Bootstrap loader / RAM monitor solutions for a flexible access via a wide variety of debug channels (ASC, SSC, 3-PIN, CAN) are available.

UDE MemTool as a part of UDE is designed for On-Chip and On-Board FLASH/OTP programming with microcontroller systems using SAB C16x, C166CBC, C166S-V2, XC16x, ST10, TriCore, ARM7, ARM9, PowerPC and XScale derivatives.

The UDE demo version within a Starterkit for TriCore is available.

Trademarks

TriCore is a trademark of Infineon Technologies. All other brands or product names are the property of their respective holders.

TriCore ™ Derivatives ( TC1130, TC1765, TC1766ED, TC1775, TC1796, TC1796ED, TC1767, TC1797, TC1920) - Architectural Overview of the HighEnd 32-Bit Single-Chip Microcontrollers

Supported TriCore ™ Derivatives by Universal Debug Engine

TriCore ™ Architecture Feature Overview

UDE - Universal Debug Engine

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