The MCST R1000 (russian: МЦСТ R1000) is a 64-bit
microprocessor
A microprocessor is a computer processor where the data processing logic and control is included on a single integrated circuit, or a small number of integrated circuits. The microprocessor contains the arithmetic, logic, and control circ ...
developed by
Moscow Center of SPARC Technologies (MCST)
MCST (russian: МЦСТ, acronym for Moscow Center of SPARC Technologies) is a Russian microprocessor company that was set up in 1992. Different types of processors made by MCST were used in personal computers, servers and computing systems. MC ...
and fabricated by
TSMC
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited (TSMC; also called Taiwan Semiconductor) is a Taiwanese multinational semiconductor contract manufacturing and design company. It is the world's most valuable semiconductor company, the world' ...
.
During development this microprocessor was designated as MCST-4R.
MCST R1000 Highlights
*implements the
SPARC V9
SPARC (Scalable Processor Architecture) is a reduced instruction set computer (RISC) instruction set architecture originally developed by Sun Microsystems. Its design was strongly influenced by the experimental Berkeley RISC system developed ...
instruction set architecture (ISA)
*
quad-core
A multi-core processor is a microprocessor on a single integrated circuit with two or more separate processing units, called cores, each of which reads and executes program instructions. The instructions are ordinary CPU instructions (such a ...
*core specifications:
**in-order, dual-issue
superscalar
**7-stage integer
pipeline
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** Instruction pipelining, a technique for implementing instruction-level parallelism within a s ...
**9-stage floating-point
pipeline
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Electronics, computers and computing
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**
VIS extensions 1 and 2
**
Multiply–accumulate unit
**16 KB L1 instruction cache (
parity protection)
**32 KB L1 data cache (
parity protection)
**size 7.6 mm
2
*shared 2MB L2 cache (
ECC protection)
*integrated memory controller
*integrated
ccNUMA controller
*1 GHz
clock rate
In computing, the clock rate or clock speed typically refers to the frequency at which the clock generator of a processor can generate pulses, which are used to synchronize the operations of its components, and is used as an indicator of the pr ...
*
90 nm process
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*die size 128 mm
2
*~150 million transistors
*power consumption 15W
References
{{List of Russian microprocessors
SPARC microprocessors
64-bit microprocessors