Signal processor, prefetch instruction method and prefetch instruction program

摘要

A signal processor including a processor having a cache memory and a process execution unit executing a process by use of information temporarily stored in the cache memory and an external memory provided external to the processor. In the signal processor, the process execution unit automatically returns to a start point of a loop-type data at an end of the loop-type data and sequentially reads out the loop-type data from the external memory to the cache memory.