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to provide multiprocessing ability. A TriMedia board has a TM1300 TriMedia
processor with its own dedicated memory. A 32-bit TM1300 TriMedia processor
has a five-issue VLIW (Very Long Instruction Word) CPU together with several
coprocessors as shown in Figure 2. The CPU in the processor has multiple
functional units and 128 registers. Table 1 shows the major features of a
TriMedia CPU.
Besides its complicated hardware, the TriMedia board comes with a set of
powerful software tools, which includes a tmsim simulator providing full func-

Figure 2. Structure of a TriMedia processor.

Table 1. TriMedia features.

Constant 5

Integer ALU 5

Load/Store 2

DSP ALU 2

DSP MUL 2

Number of Functional Units

Shifter 2

Branch 3

Int/Float MUL 2

Float ALU 2

Float Compare 1

Float sqrt/div 1

Number of Registers 128

Instruction Cache 32KB, 8 Way

Data Cache 16KB, 8 Way

Number of Operation Slots-Instruction 5