Architecture and Instruction Set of the C6x Processor

This chapter contains sections titled:

• Introduction

• TMS320C6x Architecture

• Functional Units

• Fetch and Execute Packets

• Pipelining

• Registers

• Linear and Circular Addressing Modes

• TMS320C6x Instruction Set

• Assembler Directives

• Linear Assembly

• ASM Statement Within C

• C-Callable Assembly Function

• Timers

• Interrupts

• Multichannel Buffered Serial Ports

• Direct Memory Access

• Memory Considerations

• Fixed- and Floating-Point Format

• Code Improvement

• Constraints

• Programming Examples Using C, Assembly, and Linear Assembly

• Assignments

• References