Engineering:MB86900

MB86900

General Info
Launched	1986
Designed by	Fujitsu
Performance
Max. CPU clock rate	16.67 MHz
Architecture and classification
Instruction set	SPARC V7
Physical specifications
Cores	1
History

The MB86900 is a microprocessor produced by Fujitsu, 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. 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.

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.