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  • N1213 is a configurable hard/soft core of NDS32's N12 CPU family.
    
    Features
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    CPU Core
     - 16-/32-bit mixable instruction format.
     - 32 general-purpose 32-bit registers.
     - 8-stage pipeline.
     - Dynamic branch prediction.
     - 32/64/128/256 BTB.
     - Return address stack (RAS).
     - Vector interrupts for internal/external.
       interrupt controller with 6 hardware interrupt signals.
     - 3 HW-level nested interruptions.
     - User and super-user mode support.
     - Memory-mapped I/O.
     - Address space up to 4GB.
    
    Memory Management Unit
     - TLB
       - 4/8-entry fully associative iTLB/dTLB.
       - 32/64/128-entry 4-way set-associati.ve main TLB.
       - TLB locking support
     - Optional hardware page table walker.
     - Two groups of page size support.
      - 4KB & 1MB.
      - 8KB & 1MB.
    
    Memory Subsystem
     - I & D cache.
       - Virtually indexed and physically tagged.
       - Cache size: 8KB/16KB/32KB/64KB.
       - Cache line size: 16B/32B.
       - Set associativity: 2-way, 4-way or direct-mapped.
       - Cache locking support.
     - I & D local memory (LM).
       - Size: 4KB to 1MB.
       - Bank numbers: 1 or 2.
       - Optional 1D/2D DMA engine.
       - Internal or external to CPU core.
    
    Bus Interface
     - Synchronous/Asynchronous AHB bus: 0, 1 or 2 ports.
     - Synchronous High speed memory port.
       (HSMP): 0, 1 or 2 ports.
    
    Debug
     - JTAG debug interface.
     - Embedded debug module (EDM).
     - Optional embedded program tracer interface.
    
    Miscellaneous
     - Programmable data endian control.
     - Performance monitoring mechanism.