Specifications
C8051F330/1
68 Rev. 1.1
Performance
The CIP-51 employs a pipelined architecture that greatly increases its instruction throughput over the standard 8051
architecture. In a standard 8051, all instructions except for MUL and DIV take 12 or 24 system clock cycles to exe
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cute, and usually have a maximum system clock of 12 MHz. By contrast, the CIP-51 core executes 70% of its instruc-
tions in one or two system clock cycles, with no instructions taking more than eight system clock cycles.
With the CIP-51's maximum system clock at 25 MHz, it has a peak throughput of 25 MIPS. The CIP-51 has a total of
109 instructions. The table below shows the total number of instructions that require each execution time.
Programming and Debugging Support
In-system programming of the FLASH program memory and communication with on-chip debug support logic is
accomplished via the Silicon Labs 2-Wire Development Interface (C2). Note that the re-programmable FLASH can
also be read and changed a single byte at a time by the application software using the MOVC and MOVX instruc
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tions. This feature allows program memory to be used for non-volatile data storage as well as updating program code
under software control.
The on-chip debug support logic facilitates full speed in-circuit debugging, allowing the setting of hardware break-
points, starting, stopping and single stepping through program execution (including interrupt service routines), exam-
ination of the program's call stack, and reading/writing the contents of registers and memory. This method of on-chip
debugging is completely non-intrusive, requiring no RAM, Stack, timers, or other on-chip resources. C2 details can
be found in
Section “20. C2 Interface” on page 201.
The CIP-51 is supported by development tools from Silicon Labs and third party vendors. Silicon Labs provides an
integrated development environment (IDE) including editor, macro assembler, debugger and programmer. The IDE's
debugger and programmer interface to the CIP-51 via the C2 interface to provide fast and efficient in-system device
programming and debugging. Third party macro assemblers and C compilers are also available.
Clocks to Execute 1 2 2/3 3 3/4 4 4/5 5 8
Number of Instructions 26 50 5 14 7 3 1 2 1