Tensilica’s Diamond Standard Series processor family consists of 10 ready-to-use synthesizable cores that range from area-efficient, low-power controllers to the industry’s highest performance licensable DSP and most popular audio processor and an exciting video processor family. The Diamond Standard family covers the broadest range of performance of any embedded computing architecture. The Diamond Standard processor family is based on Tensilica’s highly efficient Xtensa configurable and extensible processor architecture, proven in hundreds of SOC (system-on-chip) designs. Therefore, it’s easy for designers to bridge to Tensilica’s Xtensa processor product line if additional customization is required. The Diamond Series’ wide range of processor cores provides the most advanced, versatile, and highest performance computing architecture in the embedded processor industry, making them ideal for applications ranging from low-power handsets to high-performance communications. The Diamond Standard processors are supported by an optimized set of Diamond Standard software tools and a wide range of industry infrastructure partners, ranging from top-tier ASIC and foundry partners to companies that provide operating system support, co-verification, in-circuit emulation, EDA tools, and more. See our white paper library for even more information.
| Diamond Standard Series Lineup |
Controllers |
Diamond
108Mini |
Ultra-low power, cacheless RISC controller with rich interrupt architecture and minimal gate count for lowest silicon costs |
Diamond
212GP |
Flexible mid-range RISC controller with instruction and data caches and user-defined local memory sizes |
CPUs |
Diamond
232L |
Flexible mid-range CPU with Memory Management Unit (MMU) for Linux OS support |
Diamond
570T |
3-issue static superscalar CPU core. Twice the performance of an ARM11 (based on EEMBC benchmarks) |
DSPs |
Diamond
545CK |
3-issue VLIW, 8-way SIMD DSP. Highest performance licensable DSP on the market (based on BDTI Benchmarks™) |
Audio Processor |
Diamond
330HiFi |
Low-power, 24-bit audio processor for all popular audio and speech codecs. Based on market-leading Xtensa HiFi2 audio engine |
Video Processors |
Diamond
381VDO |
Low-power baseline video decoder for H.264, MPEG-4, VC-1 and MPEG-2 |
Diamond
383VDO |
Adds MPEG-4 encode to Diamond 381VDO |
Diamond
385VDO |
Low-power main profile video decoder for H .264, MPEG-4, VC-1 and MPEG-2 |
Diamond
388VDO |
Adds MPEG-4 encode to Diamond 385VDO | Features- 32-bit RISC-style architecture with 5-stage pipeline
- Family spans an extremely wide performance range
- 16/24-bit Instruction encoding (also 64-bit VLIW encoding on some cores)
- Compiler optimizes instruction length for high code density, modelessly switching between instruction types
- Fine and coarse-grained clock gating for ultra-low power
- AMBA bus interfaces
- Flexible direct Ports and Queues bypass the bus, speeding I/O on most models
- Total audio and video solutions including encoders and decoders
Benefits- Extremely efficient base architecture is smaller, lower power, and has better code density than other comparable programmable 32-bit RISC-based architectures
- Quick time-to-market through utilization of off-the-shelf synthesizable CPU or DSP IP
- Broad silicon supplier support for the Diamond series minimizes IP evaluation effort and risk
- Low power consumption is suitable for portable applications
- Single architecture with extremely wide performance range covers most controller and DSP application tasks
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