6.2 Main CPU
The CC1350 SimpleLink Wireless MCU contains an ARM Cortex-M3 (CM3) 32-bit CPU, which runs the application and the higher layers of the protocol stack.
The CM3 processor provides a high-performance, low-cost platform that meets the system requirements of minimal memory implementation and low-power consumption, while delivering outstanding computational performance and exceptional system response to interrupts.
The CM3 features include the following:
- 32-bit ARM Cortex-M3 architecture optimized for small-footprint embedded applications
- Outstanding processing performance combined with fast interrupt handling
- ARM Thumb®-2 mixed 16- and 32-bit instruction set delivers the high performance expected of a 32-bit ARM core in a compact memory size usually associated with 8- and 16-bit devices, typically in the range of a few kilobytes of memory for microcontroller-class applications:
- Single-cycle multiply instruction and hardware divide
- Atomic bit manipulation (bit-banding), delivering maximum memory use and streamlined peripheral control
- Unaligned data access, enabling data to be efficiently packed into memory
- Fast code execution permits slower processor clock or increases sleep mode time
- Harvard architecture characterized by separate buses for instruction and data
- Efficient processor core, system, and memories
- Hardware division and fast digital-signal-processing oriented multiply accumulate
- Saturating arithmetic for signal processing
- Deterministic, high-performance interrupt handling for time-critical applications
- Enhanced system debug with extensive breakpoint and trace capabilities
- Serial wire trace reduces the number of pins required for debugging and tracing
- Migration from the ARM7™ processor family for better performance and power efficiency
- Optimized for single-cycle flash memory use
- Ultra-low power consumption with integrated sleep modes
- 1.25 DMIPS per MHz