The Motorola 68020 ("''sixty-eight-oh-twenty''", "''sixty-eight-oh-two-oh''" or "''six-eight-oh-two-oh''") is a
32-bit
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microprocessor
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from
Motorola
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, released in 1984. A lower-cost version was also made available, known as the 68EC020. In keeping with naming practices common to Motorola designs, the 68020 is usually referred to as the "020", pronounced "oh-two-oh" or "oh-twenty".
The 020 was in the market for a relatively short time. The
Motorola 68030
The Motorola 68030 ("''sixty-eight-oh-thirty''") is a 32-bit microprocessor in the Motorola 68000 family. It was released in 1987. The 68030 was the successor to the Motorola 68020, and was followed by the Motorola 68040. In keeping with general ...
was announced in September 1986 and began deliveries in the summer of 1987. Priced about the same as the 020 of the time, the 030 was significantly faster and quickly replaced in 020 in almost every use.
History
68000 and 68010
At the time the
Motorola 68000
The Motorola 68000 (sometimes shortened to Motorola 68k or m68k and usually pronounced "sixty-eight-thousand") is a 16/32-bit complex instruction set computer (CISC) microprocessor, introduced in 1979 by Motorola Semiconductor Products Sector ...
was designed, Motorola's design and fabrication services were outdated. Although even small companies like
MOS Technology
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and
Zilog
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Its most famous product is the Z80 series of 8-bit microp ...
had moved on to silicon gate
depletion mode
In field-effect transistors (FETs), depletion mode and enhancement mode are two major transistor types, corresponding to whether the transistor is in an on state or an off state at zero gate–source voltage.
Enhancement-mode MOSFETs (metal–o ...
NMOS logic
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on ever-larger
wafers
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, Motorola was still using metal gates and enhancement mode and their largest fab worked on 4-inch wafers long after most lines had moved to 5-inch. Although the 68000 met the goal of being the fastest CPU available when it was introduced, it was not nearly as powerful as it could be if it had been designed with more modern techniques.
During the period of the 68000 design, the company was working with
Hitachi
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on their process technology and as part of this they opened a new fab, MOS-8, using 5-inch wafers and the latest
HMOS
In integrated circuits, depletion-load NMOS is a form of digital logic family that uses only a single power supply voltage, unlike earlier NMOS (n-type metal-oxide semiconductor) logic families that needed more than one different power supply v ...
process licensed from
Intel
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. This line was capable of building all of the new techniques, but the 68000 went ahead with the older design as they were sure it would work. Moving to new design techniques would wait until the design was in the market. The conversion to the new design techniques took place during the
Motorola 68010
The Motorola MC68010 processor is a 16/32-bit microprocessor from Motorola, released in 1982 as the successor to the Motorola 68000. It fixes several small flaws in the 68000, and adds a few features.
The 68010 is pin-compatible with the 68000, ...
effort, a relatively minor upgrade to the original design that added basic
virtual memory
In computing, virtual memory, or virtual storage is a memory management technique that provides an "idealized abstraction of the storage resources that are actually available on a given machine" which "creates the illusion to users of a very l ...
support for the emerging
Unix workstation
A workstation is a special computer designed for technical or scientific applications. Intended primarily to be used by a single user, they are commonly connected to a local area network and run multi-user operating systems. The term ''workstat ...
market.
020 concept emerges
As this effort was ongoing, Motorola was canvassing their customers for their desires for future developments in the line. These all pointed to a fully 32-bit implementation. Those using the 68k in Unix systems also stated they would purchase a
floating point unit
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for every one of the machines if one was available.
The original 68000 had been designed as a hybrid 16/32-bit system largely because the maximum number of pins available on
dual inline package
In microelectronics, a dual in-line package (DIP or DIL), is an electronic component package with a rectangular housing and two parallel rows of electrical connecting pins. The package may be through-hole mounted to a printed circuit board (P ...
s (DIPs) was 64, and even at that size, packaging of this size was highly problematic. By reducing the number of
address pins to 24, and the
data pins to only 16, there were enough free pins to implement all the other needed lines, like interrupts and power supplies. The 24-pin address bus meant that the memory could only be 16 MB in total, which was at this point becoming a limitation. The 16-bit data bus meant reading a 32-bit word from that memory required two clock cycles.
A design that had 32 pins for both the address and data busses would access data twice as fast, making the machine that much faster even with no other changes. Moving to 32 bit addressing would also make the implementation of virtual memory easier, and allow for more than 16 MB of
random access memory
Random-access memory (RAM; ) is a form of computer memory that can be read and changed in any order, typically used to store working Data (computing), data and machine code. A Random access, random-access memory device allows data items to b ...
. But doing so would also demand a much higher total pin count. By the early 1980s, similar limitations on all modern CPU designs led to the introduction of the
pin grid array that replaced the DIP. For the new project, Motorola selected a 169-pin layout, giving them plenty of room to work with. The design ultimately used only 114 of them.
A great debate broke out about how to refer to the underlying design of the new chip in marketing materials. Technically, the 020 was moving from the long-established
NMOS logic
N-type metal-oxide-semiconductor logic uses n-type (-) MOSFETs (metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors) to implement logic gates and other digital circuits. These nMOS transistors operate by creating an inversion layer in a p-type ...
design to a
CMOS
Complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor (CMOS, pronounced "sea-moss", ) is a type of metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET) fabrication process that uses complementary and symmetrical pairs of p-type and n-type MOSFE ...
layout, which requires two transistors per gate. Common knowledge of the era suggested that CMOS cost four times as much as NMOS, and there was a significant amount of the market that believed "CMOS equals bad."
Launch, fabrication problems
The design was completed in the summer of 1983 and announced in June 1984. This "super chip" was significant news at the time, with the
New York Times
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making it a lead story in their business section. The launch price was quoted at $487 each, about the same as the 68000 when it was launched in 1980, but the 68000 was now available for about $15. However, it was understood that it would be some time before computers using the new chip would be available, as existing designs would have to be heavily modified to take advantage of its performance.
The announcement led to Motorola's customers clamouring for supply. At this point, serious supply problems became evident. The design had been laid out to be built in the same MOS-8 factory as the 68000, although several new pieces of equipment were introduced to support it. By the time of the public release, the yield for the new chip was zero. That is, for every wafer sent through the multi-step process, zero working chips would be produced.
Gary Johnson concluded the problem was the floor manager of MOS-8, Tom Felesi, and decided to replace him with Bill Walker, who was at that time running the older MOS-2 factory. Walker arrived at the plant on 5 July 1985 to find Johnson had not bothered to tell Felesi of the change, and arguments followed. Johnson eventually told Felesi this was indeed happening. Walker then toured the plant and found it had been turned into what was essentially a
research and development
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lab, not a production line, with numerous bits of machinery in use nowhere else.
One significant issue was a new piece of equipment from a new vendor, Genius, which produced
silicide
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. The machine simply didn't work. Walker flew to California to meet with the CEO of Genius, who offered up nothing but excuses. Walker eventually slammed his hand down on the desk, breaking his watch band, and stated "No more excuses! I want this thing fixed now, today!" Genius took the demand seriously and fixed the machine. The CEO later sent Walker a new watch band to commemorate the event.
Meanwhile, Walker instituted a new policy at MOS-8 to improve the plant itself. He normally called meetings at 6:30 AM. If things were not going well, he would move that up to 5:30, and even 4:30. This provided a strong incentive to get the plant running. The production problems were soon ironed out, and volume deliveries began late that year. By this point, their workstation customers had already developed complete systems ready to use the 020 and the new floating point unit, the
Motorola 68881
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. Systems were in the market only five or six months after the 020 had been announced.
Replacement
Design of the 020's follow-on began almost immediately. As part of their ongoing work with Hitachi, Motorola's fabrication system was finally catching up to the competition, as was their internal design workflow. This gave them considerably more room to work with, allowing the addition of larger
processor cache
A CPU cache is a hardware cache used by the central processing unit (CPU) of a computer to reduce the average cost (time or energy) to access data from the main memory. A cache is a smaller, faster memory, located closer to a processor core, which ...
s, a built-in
memory management unit
A memory management unit (MMU), sometimes called paged memory management unit (PMMU), is a computer hardware unit having all memory references passed through itself, primarily performing the translation of virtual memory addresses to physical ad ...
(MMU) and other features. The
Motorola 68030
The Motorola 68030 ("''sixty-eight-oh-thirty''") is a 32-bit microprocessor in the Motorola 68000 family. It was released in 1987. The 68030 was the successor to the Motorola 68020, and was followed by the Motorola 68040. In keeping with general ...
was announced in September 1986, with deliveries to begin the next summer. Due to the changes in the production lines, the new 030 would have a lower launch price than the 020.
There were significant differences between the 68000 and 020, especially due to the 32-bit memory interface. This required computer designs using it to be considerably different from earlier models. In contrast, there were few changes between the 020 and 030, the latter of which could be used as a drop-in replacement in many roles. For this reason, designs using the 030 appeared much more quickly after its release than the 020. The first
Macintosh
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with the 020 was the
Macintosh II
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, released in March 1987, two years after the 020 had become widely available. with low-volume initial shipments starting two months later. Only eighteen months later, the
Macintosh IIx
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replaced it, using the 030. Although it ran at the same 16 MHz clock speed, the IIx offered 3.9 MIPS compared to the II's 2.6.
Description
The 68020 has 32-bit internal and external data and address buses, compared to the early 680x0 models with 16-bit data and 24-bit address buses. The 68020's
ALU is also natively 32-bit, so can perform 32-bit operations in one clock cycle, whereas the 68000 took a minimum of two clock cycles due to its 16-bit ALU. Newer packaging methods allowed the '020 to feature more external pins without the large size that the earlier
dual in-line package
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method required. The 68EC020 lowered cost through a 24-bit address bus. The 68020 was produced at speeds ranging from 12 MHz to 33 MHz.
Improvements over the 68010
The 68020 has a 32-bit
arithmetic logic unit
In computing, an arithmetic logic unit (ALU) is a Combinational logic, combinational digital circuit that performs arithmetic and bitwise operations on integer binary numbers. This is in contrast to a floating-point unit (FPU), which operates on ...
(ALU), 32-bit external data and address buses. It adds extra instructions and additional addressing modes. The 68020 (and 68030) has a proper three-stage pipeline. Though the 68010 had a "loop mode", which sped loops through what was effectively a tiny instruction cache, it held only two short instructions and was thus little used. The 68020 replaced this with a proper instruction cache of 256 bytes, the first 68k series processor to feature true on-chip cache memory.
The previous 68000 and 68010 processors could only access word (16-bit) and long word (32-bit) data in memory if it were word-aligned (located at an even address). The 68020 has no alignment restrictions on data access. Naturally, unaligned accesses are slower than aligned accesses because they required an extra memory access.
The 68020 has a small 256-byte direct-mapped instruction cache, arranged as 64 four-byte entries. Although small, it still made a significant difference in the performance of many applications. The resulting decrease in bus traffic was particularly important in systems relying heavily on
DMA.
Coprocessor support
The 68020 has a
coprocessor
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interface supporting up to eight coprocessors. The main
CPU recognizes "F-line" instructions (with the four most significant opcode bits all one), and uses special bus cycles to interact with a coprocessor to execute these instructions. Two types of coprocessors were defined: floating point units (
MC68881 or MC68882 FPUs) and the paged memory management unit (
MC68851 PMMU). Only one PMMU can be used with a CPU. In principle, multiple FPUs could be used with a CPU, but it was not commonly done. The coprocessor interface is asynchronous, so it is possible to run the coprocessors at a different clock rate than the CPU.
Multiprocessing features
Multiprocessing support is implemented externally by the use of an RMC pin to indicate an indivisible
read-modify-write cycle in progress. All other processors have to hold off memory accesses until the cycle is complete. Software support for multiprocessing includes the
TAS,
CAS and
CAS2
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instructions.
In a multiprocessor system, coprocessors could not be shared between CPUs. To avoid problems with returns from coprocessor, bus error, and address error exceptions, it was generally necessary in a multiprocessor system for all CPUs to be the same model, and for all FPUs to be the same model as well.
Instruction set
The new instructions include some minor improvements and extensions to the supervisor state, several instructions for software management of a multiprocessing system (which were removed in the 68060), some support for high-level languages which did not get used much (and was removed from future 680x0 processors), bigger multiply (32×32→64 bits) and divide (64÷32→32 bits quotient and 32 bits remainder) instructions, and bit field manipulations.
The new addressing modes add
scaled indexing and another level of
indirection
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to many of the pre-existing modes.
Architecture
With full 32-bit internal and external address buses, the address registers (A0 through A7) could utilize their full 32-bit width, and were capable of addressing the entire 4 GB address space.
The larger effective widths of the address registers presented some problem for earlier software that was not considered "
32-bit clean
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". Some programs used the high 8 bits (bits 24-31) of addresses to contain various flag bits, with the understanding that the earlier 680x0 CPUs would safely ignore these high bits. Such software had to be rewritten to adjust to the larger physical address space available to the 68020 and later CPUs.
Usage
The 68020 was used in the
Apple
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Macintosh II
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and
Macintosh LC
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Overview
The first in the Macintosh LC family, the LC was introduced with the Macintosh Classic (a repackaging o ...
personal computer
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s,
Sun-3
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workstations,
Amiga 1200
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(68EC020 variant), the
Hewlett-Packard
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8711 Series Network Analyzers,
HP 9000
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/320, HP 9000/330,
Apollo Computer
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's
DN3000 and DN4000 workstations, and the
Alpha Microsystems
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AM-2000. The 68020 was an alternative upgrade to the
Sinclair QL
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's
68008 in the Super Gold Card interface by
Miracle Systems
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.
The
Amiga 2500
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and A2500UX optionally shipped with the A2620 Accelerator using a 68020, 68881 FPU and 68851 MMU. The 2500UX shipped with
Amiga Unix, requiring an '020 or '030 processor.
A number of
digital oscilloscopes from the mid-80s to the late-90s used the 68020, including the
LeCroy 9300 Series (higher end models including "C" suffix models used the more powerful
68EC030
The Motorola 68030 ("''sixty-eight-oh-thirty''") is a 32-bit microprocessor in the Motorola 68000 family. It was released in 1987. The 68030 was the successor to the Motorola 68020, and was followed by the Motorola 68040. In keeping with general ...
; the 9300 models with a 68020 processor can be upgraded to the
68EC030
The Motorola 68030 ("''sixty-eight-oh-thirty''") is a 32-bit microprocessor in the Motorola 68000 family. It was released in 1987. The 68030 was the successor to the Motorola 68020, and was followed by the Motorola 68040. In keeping with general ...
with a change of the CPU board) and the earlier LeCroy 9400 series (all models excluding the 9400/9400A which used the
68000
The Motorola 68000 (sometimes shortened to Motorola 68k or m68k and usually pronounced "sixty-eight-thousand") is a 16/32-bit complex instruction set computer (CISC) microprocessor, introduced in 1979 by Motorola Semiconductor Products Secto ...
), along with certain
Tektronix
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Originally an independent ...
TDS Series models. The HP 54520, 54522, 54540 and 54542 also use the 68020, together with a 68882 FPU.
[Hewlett Packard 54520 and 54540 Series Oscilloscope Service Guide (54542-97015), Chapter 8, Main Assembly Theory, April 1994]
It is also the processor used on
TGV
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trains to decode signalling information sent to the trains through the rails. It is used in the flight control and radar systems of the
Eurofighter Typhoon
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combat aircraft.
The Nortel Networks
DMS-100
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The purpose of th ...
telephone central office switch also used the 68020 as the first
microprocessor
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of the SuperNode computing core.
Variant
![M68EC020](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/53/M68EC020.jpg)
The 68EC020 is a lower cost version of the Motorola 68020. The main difference is that the 68EC020 only has a 24-bit address bus, rather than the 32-bit address bus of the full 68020, and thus is only able to address 16 MB of memory.
The
Amiga 1200
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computer and the
Amiga CD32
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game console use the cost-reduced 68EC020; the
Namco System 22,
Taito F3 and
Konami GX
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List of Konami GX games
* ''Daisu-Kiss'' (1996)
* ''Dragoon Might'' (1995)
* ''Fantastic Parodius - Pursue the Glory of the Past'' (1994)
* ''Golfing Greats 2'' (1994)
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arcade boards also used this processor. The
Atari
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Jaguar II prototype featured this to replace the 68000 of the original
Atari Jaguar
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console.
It also found use in laser printers. Apple used it in the LaserWriter IIɴᴛx. Kodak used it in the Ektaplus 7016PS, and Dataproducts used it in the LZR 1260.
In 2014,
Rochester Electronics re-established manufacturing capability for the 68020 microprocessor and it is still available today.
Technical data
References
Bibliography
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External links
68020 images and descriptions at cpu-collection.de
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