Inside the Siemens TriCore

A BDTI Technical Evaluation

The first independent, in-depth report to evaluate the Siemens [now Infineon Technologies'] hybrid DSP/microcontroller, TriCore.

Inside the Siemens TriCore is:

• Based on hands-on programming experience
• Includes industry-standard BDTI Benchmark™ results
• Identifies processor strengths and weaknesses
• Compares performance to that of key competitors
• Timely information from the established leader in DSP technology analysis

Includes in-depth discussion of the TriCore's:

• Instruction set
• Execution control
• Peripherals
• On-chip debugging support
• Benchmark performance
• Fabrication details
• Development tools
• Applications support
• Advantages
• Disadvantages

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. About the authors
3. Selecting and using processor cores
4. Qualitative analysis of TriCore
5. Overview of competitors
   • ARM ARM7TDMI/Piccolo
   • Hitachi SH-DSP
   • Lucent Technologies DSP16xxx
   • Motorola DSP568xx
   • Texas Instruments TMS320C54x
   • Texas Instruments TMS320C27xx
6. Analysis and comparison of benchmark results
7. Conclusions
8. Appendix: Complete BDTI Benchmark results

BDTI's Inside Series

Inside the Siemens TriCore is one of many reports in BDTI's series of focused reports on single processors. The series also includes:

• Inside the Hitachi/STMicroelectronics SH-4/ST40 and SH-5/ST50
• Inside the ARM ARM7, ARM9, and ARM9E
• Inside the 3DSP SP-5
• Inside the Hitachi SH-DSP and SH3-DSP
• Inside the StarCore SC110
• Inside the ADI/Intel Micro Signal Architecture
• Inside the StarCore SC140
• Inside the Infineon Carmel
• Inside the Lucent DSP16000

The BDTI Benchmarks™

The analysis in Inside the Siemens TriCore is based on results obtained from the BDTI Benchmarks, an industry-standard suite of DSP algorithm kernels. Each benchmark is painstakingly written and optimized in native assembly language following a strict specification.

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