General architecture

What is M/BE?

The Mirocom Broadband Engine (M/BE) is a low-power heterogeneous system-on-chip (SoC) aimed at targeting embedded systems as well as general purpose applications with moderate resource utilization.

Terminology

APE):
    An application processing element (APE) is a RISC-V core / unit of execution
    that is capable of executing MISA instructions from memory.

SPE):
    A synergistic processing element (SPE) is a specialized co-processor used for vectored
    and floating point operations and is connected to the APEs through the element interconnect
    bus (EIB).

EIB):
    An element interconnect bus connects SPEs and APEs.

MISA):
    The Mirocom Instruction Set Architecture (MISA)  is the native instruction set understood by
     APEs.