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November 1993

Order Number: 272206-002

80960SA

EMBEDDED 32-BIT MICROPROCESSOR

WITH 16-BIT BURST DATA BUS

The 80960SA is a member of Intel’s i960

embedded applications. It includes a 512-byte instruction cache and a built-in interrupt controller. The 80960SA

has a large register set, multiple parallel execution units and a 16-bit burst bus. Using advanced RISC

technology, this high performance processor is capable of execution rates in excess of 7.5 million instructions

per second

non-impact printers, network adapters and I/O controllers.

Figure 1. The 80960SA Processor’s Highly Parallel Architecture

* Relative to Digital Equipment Corporation’s VAX-11/780 at 1 MIPS (VAX-11™ is a trademark of Digital Equipment

Corporation)

Architecture

— 20 MIPS* Burst Execution at 20 MHz

— 7.5 MIPS Sustained Execution

at 20 MHz

— Direct Mapped

— Parallel Load/Decode for Uncached

Instructions

— Sixteen Global 32-Bit Registers

— Sixteen Local 32-Bit Registers

— Four Local Register Sets Stored

On-Chip

— Register Scoreboarding

— 4 Direct Interrupt Pins

— 31 Priority Levels, 256 Vectors

— 32 Mbytes/s Burst

— Up to 16 Bytes Transferred per Burst

— 84-Lead Plastic Leaded Chip Carrier

(PLCC)

80960KA/KB/CA/CF Processors

INSTRUCTION

FETCH UNIT

512-BYTE

INSTRUCTION

CACHE

INSTRUCTION

DECODER

MICRO-

INSTRUCTION

SEQUENCER

MICRO-

INSTRUCTION

ROM

32-BIT

BUS

CONTROL

LOGIC

32-BIT

INSTRUCTION

EXECUTION

UNIT

64- BY 32-BIT

LOCAL

REGISTER

CACHE

SIXTEEN

32-BIT GLOBAL

REGISTERS

32-BIT

ADDRESS

16-BIT

BURST

BUS