OPTIONAL
PERIPHERALS
There are also available an optional
peripherals, not included in presented
DRPIC166X Microcontroller Core. The
optional peripherals, can be implemented in
microcontroller core upon customer request.
● SPI – Master and Slave Serial Peripheral
Interface
○ Supports speeds up ¼ of system clock
○ Mode fault error
○ Write collision error
○ Software selectable polarity and phase of
serial clock SCK
○ System errors detection
○ Allows operation from a wide range of system
clock frequencies (build-in 5-bit timer)
○ Interrupt generation
● I2C bus controller - Master
○ 7-bit and 10-bit addressing modes
○ NORMAL, FAST, HIGH speeds
○ Multi-master systems supported
○ Clock arbitration and synchronization
○ User defined timings on I2C lines
○ Wide range of system clock frequencies
○ Interrupt generation
● I2C bus controller - Slave
○ NORMAL speed 100 kbs
○ FAST speed 400 kbs
○ HIGH speed 3400 kbs
○ Wide range of system clock frequencies
○ User defined data setup time on I2C lines
○ Interrupt generation
PERFORMANCE
The following table gives a survey about
the Core area and performance in the
ALTERA® devices after Place & Route:
Device
Speed
grade
Logic Cells
Fmax
CYCLONE
-6
1654
81 MHz
CYCLONE II -6
1654
72 MHz
STRATIX
-5
1655
86 MHz
STRATIX II
-3
1401
166 MHz
STRATIX GX -5
1655
84 MHz
APEX II
-7
1695
74 MHz
APEX20KC
-7
1695
64 MHz
APEX20KE
-1
1695
54 MHz
APEX20K
-1
1695
50 MHz
ACEX1K
-1
1695
52 MHz
FLEX10KE
-1
1695
54 MHz
Core performance in ALTERA® devices
Area utilized by the each unit of DRPIC166X
core in vendor specific technologies is
summarized in table below.
Component
Area
[LC]
[FFs]
CPU*
904
296
Timer 0
60
29
Timer 1
81
30
Timer 2
90
34
USART
257
100
CCP1
111
32
Watchdog Timer
55
38
I/O Ports
96
64
Total area
1 654
625
*CPU – consisted of ALU, Control Unit, Bus Controller, Hardware Stack,
External INT pin Interrupt Controller, Extended interrupt controller,(512
Bytes RAM and 8kW of program memory)
Core components area utilization
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