TMS320C40 Features

The TMS320C40 is the original member of the 'C4x family. It features a CPU that can deliver up to 30 MIPS/60 MFLOPS with a maximum I/O bandwidth of 384 Mbytes/s. The 'C40 has 2K words of on-chip RAM, 128 words of program cache, and a boot loader. Two external buses provide an address reach of 4 gigawords of unified memory space. The 'C40 is available in a 325-pin CPGA package.

Features of the 'C40 include:

• 33-, 40-, and 50-ns instruction cycle times for the 'C40
• 4G-word external address reach
• Accepts source code from the 'C3x
• Optimizing ANSI C compiler
• IEEE floating-point conversion for ease of use
• 6- or 12-channel on-chip DMA
• Six communication ports
• 325-pin PGA package