Nios® V Processor Reference Manual

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Date 7/26/2024
Public
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4.3.9.3.1. Instruction Cache

The instruction cache memory has the following characteristics:

  • Direct-mapped cache implementation
  • 32 bytes (8 words) per cache line
  • Configurable size of 1, 2, 4, 8, and 16 KBytes
  • The instruction manager port reads an entire cache line at a time from memory, and issues one read per clock cycle.
  • Critical word first
  • Burst length of 8

The instruction byte address size is 32-bit. The size of the tag and index field depends only on the size of the cache memory. The offset field is always five bits (i.e., a 32-byte line). The instruction fetch fence (fence.i) instruction flushes and invalidates all instruction cache lines.