Engineering:MB86900

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MB86900
General Info
Launched1986
Designed byFujitsu
Performance
Max. CPU clock rate16.67 MHz
Architecture and classification
Instruction setSPARC V7
Physical specifications
Cores
  • 1
History

The MB86900 is a microprocessor produced by Fujitsu,[1] which implements the SPARC V7 instruction set architecture developed by Sun Microsystems. It was the first implementation of SPARC, introduced in 1986, and was used in the first SPARC-based workstation, the Sun Microsystems Sun-4, from 1987.[2][3] Its chipset operated at 16.67 MHz. The chipset consisted of two chips, the MB86900 microprocessor and the MB86910 floating-point unit. The chip set was implemented with two 20,000-gate, 1.2 µm complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor (CMOS) gate-arrays fabricated by Fujitsu Limited.

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References

  • Quach, L.; Chueh, R. (1988). "CMOS gate array implementation of SPARC". Thirty-Third IEEE Computer Society International Conference, Digest of Papers.
  • Namjoo, M. (1989). "SPARC implementations: ASIC vs. custom design". Proceedings of the Twenty-Second Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences.