TigerSHARC

TigerSHARC refers to a family of microprocessors currently manufactured by Analog Devices Inc (ADI). It is superscalar and features data-parallelism in the form of short-vector SIMD and subword (16-bit) parallelism (SWAR). It consists of:^[1]

• Two separate computation blocks (CompBlocks) each with 32 general-purpose registers and their own ALU, multiplier, and shifter; 256-bit read and 128-bit write bus access
• Two integer ALUs (JALU, KALU) each with 32 registers; mainly intended for address generation, but is also capable of general integer arithmetic; 32-bit data bus
• A sequencer with 128-entry 4-way associative branch target buffer; 128-bit data bus
• Three separate internal memory banks (SRAM)
• External port with DMA

TigerSHARC

Designer	Analog Devices
Bits	32-bit
Introduced	2000; 25 years ago (2000)
Design	DSP/RISC
Type	Load–store
Encoding	?
Branching	?
Endianness	?
Registers
2 × 32 × 32-bit address registers
General-purpose	2 × 32 × 32-bit registers (addressable in 16-bit parts)

See also

• SHARC
• Blackfin