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XScale is a
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for
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s initially designed by
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implementing the
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(version 5)
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. XScale comprises several distinct families: IXP, IXC, IOP, PXA and CE (see more below), with some later models designed as
system-on-a-chip A system on a chip or system-on-chip (SoC ; pl. ''SoCs'' ) is an integrated circuit that integrates most or all components of a computer or other electronic system. These components almost always include a central processing unit (CPU), memory ...
(SoC). Intel sold the PXA family to
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in June 2006. Marvell then extended the brand to include processors with other
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s, like
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. The XScale architecture is based on the ARMv5TE ISA without the
floating-point In computing, floating-point arithmetic (FP) is arithmetic that represents real numbers approximately, using an integer with a fixed precision, called the significand, scaled by an integer exponent of a fixed base. For example, 12.345 can b ...
instructions. XScale uses a seven-stage integer and an eight-stage memory super- pipelined
microarchitecture In computer engineering, microarchitecture, also called computer organization and sometimes abbreviated as µarch or uarch, is the way a given instruction set architecture (ISA) is implemented in a particular processor. A given ISA may be impl ...
. It is the successor to the Intel
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line of
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s and
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s, which Intel acquired from DEC's Digital Semiconductor division as part of a settlement of a lawsuit between the two companies. Intel used the StrongARM to replace its ailing line of outdated
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processors, the i860 and
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. All the generations of XScale are 32-bit ARMv5TE processors manufactured with a 0.18 μm or 0.13 μm (as in IXP43x parts) process and have a 32  KB data
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and a 32 KB instruction cache. First- and second-generation XScale
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s also have a 2 KB mini data cache (claimed it "avoids 'thrashing' of the D-Cache for frequently changing data streams"). Products based on the third-generation XScale have up to 512 KB unified L2 cache.


Processor families

The XScale core is used in a number of
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families manufactured by
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and Marvell: * Application processors (with the prefix PXA). There are four generations of XScale application processors, described below: PXA210/PXA25x, PXA26x, PXA27x, and PXA3xx. * I/O processors (with the prefix IOP). * Network processors (with the prefix IXP). *
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processors (with the prefix IXC). * Consumer electronics processors (with the prefix CE). There are also standalone processors: the 80200 and 80219 (targeted primarily at
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applications).


PXA

PXA System on a Chip (SoC) products were designed in Austin, Texas. The code-names for this product line are small towns in Texas, primarily near deer hunting leases frequented by the Intel XScale core and mobile phone SoC marketing team.


PXA210/PXA25x

The PXA210 was Intel's entry-level XScale targeted at
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applications. It was released with the PXA250 in February 2002 and comes clocked at 133 MHz and 200 MHz. The PXA25x family (code-named Cotulla) consists of the PXA250 and PXA255. The PXA250 was Intel's first generation of XScale processors. There was a choice of three
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s: 200 
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, 300 MHz and 400 MHz. It came out in February 2002. In March 2003, the revision C0 of the PXA250 was renamed to PXA255. The main differences were a doubled internal bus speed (100 MHz to 200 MHz) for faster data transfer, lower core voltage (only 1.3 V at 400 MHz) for lower power consumption and
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functionality for the data cache, the lack of which had severely impaired performance on the PXA250. Intel XScale Core Features : * ARMv5TE * ARM Thumb * ARM DSP * L1 32-KByte data and instruction cache


PXA26x

The PXA26x family (code-named Dalhart) consists of the PXA260 and PXA261-PXA263. The PXA260 is a stand-alone processor clocked at the same frequency as the PXA25x, but features a TPBGA package which is about 53% smaller than the PXA25x's PBGA package. The PXA261-PXA263 are the same as the PXA260 but have Intel StrataFlash memory stacked on top of the processor in the same package; 16 MB of 16-bit memory in the PXA261, 32 MB of 16-bit memory in the PXA262 and 32 MB of 32-bit memory in the PXA263. The PXA26x family was released in March 2003.


PXA27x

The PXA27x family (code-named Bulverde) consists of the PXA270 and PXA271-PXA272 processors. This revision is a huge update to the XScale family of processors. The PXA270 is clocked in four different speeds: 312 MHz, 416 MHz, 520 MHz and 624 MHz and is a stand-alone processor with no packaged memory. The PXA271 can be clocked to 13, 104, 208 MHz or 416 MHz and has 32 MB of 16-bit stacked StrataFlash memory and 32 MB of 16-bit SDRAM in the same package. The PXA272 can be clocked to 312 MHz, 416 MHz or 520 MHz and has 64 MB of 32-bit stacked StrataFlash memory. Intel also added many new technologies to the PXA27x family such as: *
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: the operating system can clock the processor down based on load to save power. * Wireless MMX (code-named Concan; "iwMMXt"): 43 new
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instructions containing the full MMX
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and the integer instructions from Intel's SSE instruction set along with some instructions unique to the XScale. Wireless MMX provides 16 extra 64-bit registers that can be treated as an array of two 32-bit
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s, four 16-bit halfwords or eight 8-bit
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s. The XScale core can then perform up to eight adds or four MACs in parallel in a single cycle. This capability is used to boost speed in decoding and
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of multimedia and in playing games. * Additional
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, such as a USB-Host interface and a camera interface. * Internal 256 KB SRAM to reduce power consumption and latency. The PXA27x family was released in April 2004. Along with the PXA27x family Intel released the 2700G embedded graphics
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(code-named Marathon).


PXA3xx

In August 2005 Intel announced the successor to Bulverde, codenamed Monahans. They demonstrated it showing its capability to play back high definition encoded video on a
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screen. The new processor was shown clocked at 1.25 GHz but Intel said it only offered a 25% increase in performance (800  MIPS for the 624 MHz PXA270 processor vs. 1000 MIPS for 1.25 GHz Monahans). An announced successor to the 2700G graphics processor, code named Stanwood, has since been canceled. sd features of Stanwood are integrated into Monahans. For extra graphics capabilities, Intel recommends third-party chips like the
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chip family. In November 2006,
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officially introduced the Monahans family as Marvell PXA320, PXA300, and PXA310. PXA320 is currently shipping in high volume, and is scalable up to 806 MHz. PXA300 and PXA310 deliver performance "scalable to 624 MHz", and are software-compatible with PXA320.


PXA800F

Codenamed Manitoba, Intel PXA800F was a SoC introduced by Intel in 2003 for use in
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-enabled mobile phones. The chip was built around an
XScale XScale is a microarchitecture for central processing units initially designed by Intel implementing the ARM architecture (version 5) instruction set. XScale comprises several distinct families: IXP, IXC, IOP, PXA and CE (see more below), with some ...
processor core, the likes of which had been used in PDAs, clocked at 312 MHz and manufactured with a 0.13 μm process, with 4 MB of integrated flash memory and a
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. A prototype board with the chip was demoed during the Intel Developer Forum. Intel noted it was in talks with leading mobile phone manufacturers, such as
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and
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, about incorporating Manitoba into their phones. O2 XM, released in 2005, was the only mobile phone with a documented use of the Manitoba chip. An Intel executive stated that the chip version used in the phone was reworked to be less expensive than the initial one.


PXA90x

The PXA90x, codenamed Hermon, was a successor to Manitoba with 3G support. The PXA90x is built using a 130 nm process. The SoC continued being marketed by Marvell as they acquired Intel's XScale business.


PXA16x

PXA16x is a processor designed by Marvell, combining the earlier Intel designed PXA SoC components with a new ARMv5TE CPU core named Mohawk or PJ1 from Marvell's Sheeva family instead of using wdc Xscale or ARM design. The CPU core is derived from the Feroceon core used in Marvell's embedded Kirkwood product line, but extended for instruction level compatibility with the XScale IWMMX. The PXA16x delivers strong performance at a mass market price point for cost sensitive consumer and embedded markets such as digital picture frames, E Readers, multifunction printer user interface (UI) displays, interactive VoIP phones, IP surveillance cameras, and home control gadgets.


PXA930/935

The PXA930 and PXA935 processor series were again built using the Sheeva microarchitecture developed by Marvell but upgraded to ARMv7 instruction set compatibility. This core is a so-called Tri-core architecture codenamed Tavor; Tri-core means it supports the ARMv5TE, ARMv6 and ARMv7 instruction sets.Marvell PXA935 (Tavor-P65) Application Processor with Modem Datasheet , CPUlist
PDAdb.net (2012-02-25). Retrieved on 2013-08-02.
This new architecture was a significant leap from the old Xscale architecture. The PXA930 uses 65 nm technology while the PXA935 is built using the 45 nm process. The PXA930 is used in the BlackBerry Bold 9700.


PXA940

Little is known about the PXA940, although it is known to be
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compliant. It is utilized in the BlackBerry Torch 9800 and is built using 45 nm technology.


PXA986/PXA988

After XScale and Sheeva, the PXA98x uses the third CPU core design, this time licensed directly from ARM, in form of dual core Cortex A9 application processors utilized by devices like Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 7.0.


PXA1088

It is a quad core
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application processor with
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GPU.


IXC


IXC1100

The IXC1100 processor features clock speeds at 266, 400, and 533 MHz, a 133 MHz bus, 32 KB of instruction cache, 32 KB of data cache, and 2 KB of mini-data cache. It is also designed for low power consumption, using 2.4 W at 533 MHz. The chip comes in the 35 mm PBGA package.


IOP

The IOP line of processors is designed to allow computers and storage devices to transfer data and increase performance by offloading I/O functionality from the main CPU of the device. The IOP3XX processors are based on the XScale architecture and designed to replace the older 80219 sd and i960 family of chips. There are ten different IOP processors currently available: IOP303, IOP310, IOP315, IOP321, IOP331, IOP332, IOP333, IOP341, IOP342 and IOP348. Clock speeds range from 100 MHz to 1.2 GHz. The processors also differ in PCI bus type, PCI bus speed, memory type, maximum memory allowable, and the number of processor cores.


IXP network processor

The XScale core is utilized in the second generation of Intel's IXP network processor line, while the first generation used StrongARM cores. The IXP network processor family ranges from solutions aimed at small/medium office network applications, IXP4XX, to high performance network processors such as the IXP2850, capable of sustaining up to
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line rates. In IXP4XX devices the XScale core is used as both a control and data plane processor, providing both system control and data processing. The task of the XScale in the IXP2XXX devices is typically to provide control plane functionality only, with data processing performed by the microengines, examples of such control plane tasks include routing table updates, microengine control, memory management.


CE

In April 2007, Intel announced an XScale-based processor targeting
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markets, the Intel CE 2110 (codenamed Olo River).


Applications

XScale microprocessors can be found in products such as the popular RIM
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handheld, the
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family of
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s, most of the Zire, Treo and
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lines by
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, later versions of the
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, the
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, the Acer n50, the Compaq
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3900 series and many other
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s. It is used as the main CPU in the
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desktop computer running
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, and the
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. The XScale is also used in devices such as PVPs (Portable Video Players), PMCs (Portable Media Centres), including the
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Portable Media Player and
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E-Book reader, and industrial embedded systems. At the other end of the market, the XScale IOP33x Storage I/O processors are used in some Intel
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-based server platforms.


Sale of PXA processor line

On June 27, 2006, the sale of Intel's XScale PXA mobile processor assets was announced. Intel agreed to sell the XScale PXA business to
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for an estimated $600 million in cash and the assumption of unspecified liabilities. The move was intended to permit Intel to focus its resources on its core x86 and server businesses. Marvell holds a full architecture license for ARM, allowing it to design chips to implement the ARM instruction set, not just license a processor core. The acquisition was completed on November 9, 2006. Intel was expected to continue manufacturing XScale processors until Marvell secures other manufacturing facilities, and would continue manufacturing and selling the IXP and IOP processors, as they were not part of the deal. The XScale effort at Intel was initiated by the purchase of the
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division from
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in 1998. Intel still holds an ARM license even after the sale of XScale; this license is at the architectural level.AMD Jumps Into The ARM Server Business
Forbes. Retrieved on 2013-08-02.


See also

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— open-source bootloader, the standard boot firmware shipped with XScale boards *
OMAP The OMAP (Open Multimedia Applications Platform) family, developed by Texas Instruments, was a series of image/video processors. They are proprietary system on chips (SoCs) for portable and mobile multimedia applications. OMAP devices generally i ...
— A competing processor line from Texas Instruments *
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References


External links


Intel XScale Technology Overview





Marvell PXA168 high-performance processor product brief

Optimized Linux Code for Intel XScale Microarchitecture
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