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. MCS ...

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 in ...

instruction set architecture (ISA) * quad-core *core specifications: **in-order, dual-issue

superscalar A superscalar processor is a CPU that implements a form of parallelism called instruction-level parallelism within a single processor. In contrast to a scalar processor, which can execute at most one single instruction per clock cycle, a sup ...

**7-stage integer pipeline **9-stage floating-point pipeline ** VIS extensions 1 and 2 ** Multiply–accumulate unit **16 KB L1 instruction cache (

parity Parity may refer to: * Parity (computing) ** Parity bit in computing, sets the parity of data for the purpose of error detection ** Parity flag in computing, indicates if the number of set bits is odd or even in the binary representation of the ...

protection) **32 KB L1 data cache (

protection) **size 7.6 mm² *shared 2MB L2 cache ( ECC protection) *integrated memory controller *integrated

ccNUMA Non-uniform memory access (NUMA) is a computer memory design used in multiprocessing, where the memory access time depends on the memory location relative to the processor. Under NUMA, a processor can access its own local memory faster than non- ...

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 The 90 nm process refers to the level of MOSFET ( CMOS) fabrication process technology that was commercialized by the 2003–2005 timeframe, by leading semiconductor companies like Toshiba, Sony, Samsung, IBM, Intel, Fujitsu, TSMC, ...

*die size 128 mm² *~150 million transistors *power consumption 15W

References

{{List of Russian microprocessors SPARC microprocessors 64-bit microprocessors