© INTEL CORPORATION, 2004
September, 2004
Order Number:
273123-002
80960MC
EMBEDDED 32-BIT MICROPROCESSOR
WITH INTEGRATED FLOATING-POINT UNIT
AND MEMORY MANAGEMENT UNIT
Figure 1. The 80960MC Processor’s Highly Parallel Architecture
Commercial
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High-Performance Embedded Architecture
— 25 MIPS Burst Execution at 25 MHz
— 9.4 MIPS* Sustained Execution at
25 MHz
■
On-Chip Floating Point Unit
— Supports IEEE 754 Floating Point
Standard
— Full Transcendental Support
— Four 80-Bit Registers
— 13.6 Million Whetstones/s
(Single Precision) at 25 MHz
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512-Byte On-Chip Instruction Cache
— Direct Mapped
— Parallel Load/Decode for Uncached
Instructions
■
Multiple Register Sets
— Sixteen Global 32-Bit Registers
— Sixteen Local 32-Bit Registers
— Four Local Register Sets Stored
On-Chip (Sixteen 32-Bit Registers per
Set)
— Register Scoreboarding
■
On-Chip Memory Management Unit
— 4 Gbyte Virtual Address Space per
Task
— 4 Kbyte Pages with Supervisor/User
Protection
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Built-in Interrupt Controller
— 32 Priority Levels
— 248 Vectors
— Supports M8259A
— 3.4
µ
s Latency @ 25 MHz
■
Easy to Use, High Bandwidth 32-Bit Bus
— 66.7 Mbytes/s Burst
— Up to 16 Bytes Transferred per Burst
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Multitasking and Multiprocessor Support
— Automatic Task dispatching
— Prioritized Task Queues
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Advanced Package Technology
— 132-Lead Ceramic Pin Grid Array
SIXTEEN
32-BIT GLOBAL
REGISTERS
64- BY 32-BIT
LOCAL
REGISTER
CACHE
32-BIT
INSTRUCTION
EXECUTION
UNIT
INSTRUCTION
FETCH UNIT
512-BYTE
INSTRUCTION
CACHE
INSTRUCTION
DECODER
MICRO-
INSTRUCTION
SEQUENCER
MICRO-
INSTRUCTION
ROM
32-BIT
BUS CONTROL
LOGIC
32-BIT
BURST
BUS
FOUR
80-BIT FP
REGISTERS
80-BIT
FPU
MMU
