■ Balanced power/performance
The fast speeds that SuperH devices provide would
not be usable by portable applications if the chips’
power dissipation was excessive. Therefore, Renesas
has designed the RISC and RISC/DSP devices in
low-power sub-micron CMOS processes with
low-voltage capabilities. Low static operating current
is achieved in all circuit designs; low dynamic (peak)
currents are guaranteed by logic and circuit design.
• Power-reducing techniques used in cache design
– The sense amplifiers utilize SRAM circuit-design
techniques that reduce word-line voltage swings;
this permits lower currents to be used without
sacrificing speed
– A unique cache-way-enable circuit minimizes power
demands by turning on the sense amplifiers only in that
portion of the cache that has a “hit” in a given access; this
reduces the cache data array's operating current by 75%
• Software-controlled power-reduction mechanisms:
– Each device family offers a selection of power-reduction
techniques from a palette that includes Standby and
Sleep modes, clock-speed control and selective module
shutdown
– Low operating and standby currents for longer
battery life.
■ High integration
Renesas meets the dual needs for compact devices and
low system cost by providing a broad choice of on-chip
memories and peripherals in the SuperH series.
• Large size and high performance on-chip memory:
Up to 1MB on-chip flash memory, up to 128KB
on-chip RAM, and up to 32KB instruction and
32KB data cache
• 4- to 12-channel DMAC, 2 to 5 SCIs, 16-bit and
32-bit timers (3 to 34 channels), up to 149 I/O
ports, RTC, analog interfaces (4 to 32 channels),
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C, CAN (up to 2 channels), others
• All SuperH-series processors feature direct
interfaces to external memories. The on-chip
Bus State Controller, via the external bus, provides
the specialized inputs, outputs and functions for
different types, widths, and speeds of external
memory (8/16/32-bit interfaces to DRAM,
SDRAM, DDR-SDRAM, flash, ROM, etc.)
■ Best cost/performance
The SuperH architecture has a superior performance-
to-price ratio (Dhrystone MIPS/$). The architecture’s
16-bit RISC instruction set reduces system memory
requirements, which lowers the overall cost of
embedded system designs.
■ Superior floating point and DSP support
• The SuperH floating point (SH-2A, SH-4, SH-4A)
and DSP (SH2-DSP, SH3-DSP) support is built into
the processors to reduce overall system cost and
system power consumption.
• The SH-4 FPU is ideal for computer graphics and
can be utilized to efficiently implement multimedia
and networking operations.
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