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SPARC (Scalable Processor ARChitecture) is a reduced instruction set computer (RISC) instruction set architecture originally developed by Sun Microsystems. [1]

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  1. 150 relations: Aeroflex, Afara Websystems, AMD Am29000, Amdahl Corporation, ARM architecture family, Assembly language, Atmel, Berkeley RISC, Bipolar Integrated Technology, BSD licenses, Call stack, Clock signal, Cobham (company), Computer memory, Computerworld, Conformance testing, Cypress Semiconductor, Delay slot, Double-precision floating-point format, End-user license agreement, Endianness, ERC32, European Space Research and Technology Centre, FeiTeng, Floating-point arithmetic, Floating-point unit, FreeBSD, Fujitsu, Glossary of computer hardware terms, GNU, GNU General Public License, Green500, HAL Computer Systems, HAL SPARC64, Harris Corporation, HyperSPARC, Hyundai Group, IA-64, IBM 801, IBM System/360 architecture, IEEE 754, Illumos, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Instruction set architecture, Intel i960, Intergraph, International Computers Limited, Interrupt, JavaOS, K computer, ... Expand index (100 more) »

  2. SPARC microprocessor architecture
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Aeroflex

Aeroflex Inc. was an American company which produced test equipment, RF and microwave integrated circuits, components and systems used for wireless communications.

See SPARC and Aeroflex

Afara Websystems

Afara Websystems Inc. was a Sunnyvale, California, USA server company whose goal was to build servers surrounding a custom high-throughput CPU architecture, "developing IP traffic management systems that will bring quality-of-service to the next generation of IP access infrastructure." The word "Afara" means "bridge" in the West African Yoruba language.

See SPARC and Afara Websystems

AMD Am29000

The AMD Am29000, commonly shortened to 29k, is a family of 32-bit RISC microprocessors and microcontrollers developed and fabricated by Advanced Micro Devices (AMD).

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Amdahl Corporation

Amdahl Corporation was an information technology company which specialized in IBM mainframe-compatible computer products, some of which were regarded as supercomputers competing with those from Cray Research.

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ARM architecture family

ARM (stylised in lowercase as arm, formerly an acronym for Advanced RISC Machines and originally Acorn RISC Machine) is a family of RISC instruction set architectures (ISAs) for computer processors.

See SPARC and ARM architecture family

Assembly language

In computer programming, assembly language (alternatively assembler language or symbolic machine code), often referred to simply as assembly and commonly abbreviated as ASM or asm, is any low-level programming language with a very strong correspondence between the instructions in the language and the architecture's machine code instructions.

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Atmel

Atmel Corporation was a creator and manufacturer of semiconductors before being subsumed by Microchip Technology in 2016.

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Berkeley RISC

Berkeley RISC is one of two seminal research projects into reduced instruction set computer (RISC) based microprocessor design taking place under the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency VLSI Project.

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Bipolar Integrated Technology

Bipolar Integrated Technology, Inc. (BIT), later Bit, Inc., was a privately held semiconductor company based in Beaverton, Oregon, which sold products implemented with emitter-coupled logic technology.

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BSD licenses

BSD licenses are a family of permissive free software licenses, imposing minimal restrictions on the use and distribution of covered software.

See SPARC and BSD licenses

Call stack

In computer science, a call stack is a stack data structure that stores information about the active subroutines of a computer program.

See SPARC and Call stack

Clock signal

In electronics and especially synchronous digital circuits, a clock signal (historically also known as logic beat) is an electronic logic signal (voltage or current) which oscillates between a high and a low state at a constant frequency and is used like a metronome to synchronize actions of digital circuits.

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Cobham (company)

Cobham Limited is a British aerospace manufacturing company based in Bournemouth, England.

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Computer memory

Computer memory stores information, such as data and programs, for immediate use in the computer.

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Computerworld

Computerworld (abbreviated as CW) is an ongoing decades-old professional publication which in 2014 "went digital." Its audience is information technology (IT) and business technology professionals, and is available via a publication website and as a digital magazine.

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Conformance testing

Conformance testing — an element of conformity assessment, and also known as compliance testing, or type testing — is testing or other activities that determine whether a process, product, or service complies with the requirements of a specification, technical standard, contract, or regulation.

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Cypress Semiconductor

Cypress Semiconductor was an American semiconductor design and manufacturing company.

See SPARC and Cypress Semiconductor

Delay slot

In computer architecture, a delay slot is an instruction slot being executed without the effects of a preceding instruction.

See SPARC and Delay slot

Double-precision floating-point format

Double-precision floating-point format (sometimes called FP64 or float64) is a floating-point number format, usually occupying 64 bits in computer memory; it represents a wide dynamic range of numeric values by using a floating radix point.

See SPARC and Double-precision floating-point format

End-user license agreement

An end-user license agreement or EULA is a legal contract between a software supplier and a customer or end-user.

See SPARC and End-user license agreement

Endianness

''Gulliver's Travels'' by Jonathan Swift, the novel from which the term was coined In computing, endianness is the order in which bytes within a word of digital data are transmitted over a data communication medium or addressed (by rising addresses) in computer memory, counting only byte significance compared to earliness.

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ERC32

ERC32 is a radiation-tolerant 32-bit RISC processor (SPARC V7 specification) developed for space applications.

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European Space Research and Technology Centre

The European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC) is the European Space Agency's main technology development and test centre for spacecraft and space technology.

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FeiTeng

FeiTeng (飞腾, fēiténg) is the name of several computer central processing units designed and produced in China for supercomputing applications.

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Floating-point arithmetic

In computing, floating-point arithmetic (FP) is arithmetic that represents subsets of real numbers using an integer with a fixed precision, called the significand, scaled by an integer exponent of a fixed base.

See SPARC and Floating-point arithmetic

Floating-point unit

A floating-point unit (FPU, colloquially a math coprocessor) is a part of a computer system specially designed to carry out operations on floating-point numbers.

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FreeBSD

FreeBSD is a free and open-source Unix-like operating system descended from the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD).

See SPARC and FreeBSD

Fujitsu

is a Japanese multinational information and communications technology equipment and services corporation, established in 1935 and headquartered in Kawasaki, Kanagawa.

See SPARC and Fujitsu

Glossary of computer hardware terms

This glossary of computer hardware terms is a list of definitions of terms and concepts related to computer hardware, i.e. the physical and structural components of computers, architectural issues, and peripheral devices.

See SPARC and Glossary of computer hardware terms

GNU

GNU is an extensive collection of free software (394 packages), which can be used as an operating system or can be used in parts with other operating systems.

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GNU General Public License

The GNU General Public License (GNU GPL or simply GPL) is a series of widely used free software licenses, or copyleft, that guarantee end users the four freedoms to run, study, share, and modify the software.

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Green500

The Green500 is a biannual ranking of supercomputers, from the TOP500 list of supercomputers, in terms of energy efficiency.

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HAL Computer Systems

HAL Computer Systems, Inc was a Campbell, California-based computer manufacturer founded in 1990 by Andrew Heller, a principal designer of the original IBM POWER architecture.

See SPARC and HAL Computer Systems

HAL SPARC64

SPARC64 is a microprocessor developed by HAL Computer Systems and fabricated by Fujitsu.

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Harris Corporation

Harris Corporation was an American technology company, defense contractor, and information technology services provider that produced wireless equipment, tactical radios, electronic systems, night vision equipment and both terrestrial and spaceborne antennas for use in the government, defense, emergency service, and commercial sectors.

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HyperSPARC

The hyperSPARC, code-named "Pinnacle", is a microprocessor that implements the SPARC Version 8 instruction set architecture (ISA) developed by Ross Technology for Cypress Semiconductor.

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Hyundai Group

Hyundai Group is a South Korean conglomerate founded by Chung Ju-yung.

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IA-64

IA-64 (Intel Itanium architecture) is the instruction set architecture (ISA) of the discontinued Itanium family of 64-bit Intel microprocessors. SPARC and iA-64 are 64-bit computers.

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IBM 801

The 801 was an experimental central processing unit (CPU) design developed by IBM during the 1970s.

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IBM System/360 architecture

The IBM System/360 architecture is the model independent architecture for the entire S/360 line of mainframe computers, including but not limited to the instruction set architecture.

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IEEE 754

The IEEE Standard for Floating-Point Arithmetic (IEEE 754) is a technical standard for floating-point arithmetic established in 1985 by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

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Illumos

Illumos (stylized as illumos) is a partly free and open-source Unix operating system.

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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is an American 501(c)(3) professional association for electronics engineering, electrical engineering, and other related disciplines.

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Instruction set architecture

In computer science, an instruction set architecture (ISA) is an abstract model that generally defines how software controls the CPU in a computer or a family of computers.

See SPARC and Instruction set architecture

Intel i960

Intel's i960 (or 80960) was a RISC-based microprocessor design that became popular during the early 1990s as an embedded microcontroller.

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Intergraph

Intergraph Corporation was an American software development and services company, which now forms part of Hexagon AB.

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International Computers Limited

International Computers Limited (ICL) was a British computer hardware, computer software and computer services company that operated from 1968 until 2002.

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Interrupt

In digital computers, an interrupt (sometimes referred to as a trap) is a request for the processor to interrupt currently executing code (when permitted), so that the event can be processed in a timely manner.

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JavaOS

JavaOS is a discontinued operating system based on a Java virtual machine.

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K computer

The K computer named for the Japanese word/numeral, meaning 10 quadrillion (1016)See Japanese numbers was a supercomputer manufactured by Fujitsu, installed at the Riken Advanced Institute for Computational Science campus in Kobe, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. SPARC and k computer are 64-bit computers.

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LEON

LEON (from león meaning lion) is a radiation-tolerant 32-bit central processing unit (CPU) microprocessor core that implements the SPARC V8 instruction set architecture (ISA) developed by Sun Microsystems.

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LINPACK

LINPACK is a software library for performing numerical linear algebra on digital computers.

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Linux

Linux is both an open-source Unix-like kernel and a generic name for a family of open-source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991, by Linus Torvalds.

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Lisp (programming language)

Lisp (historically LISP, an abbreviation of "list processing") is a family of programming languages with a long history and a distinctive, fully parenthesized prefix notation.

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Load–store architecture

In computer engineering, a load–store architecture (or a register–register architecture) is an instruction set architecture that divides instructions into two categories: memory access (load and store between memory and registers) and ALU operations (which only occur between registers).

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Load–store unit

In computer engineering, a load–store unit (LSU) is a specialized execution unit responsible for executing all load and store instructions, generating virtual addresses of load and store operations and loading data from memory or storing it back to memory from registers.

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LSI Corporation

LSI Logic Corporation, was an American company founded in Santa Clara, California, was a pioneer in the ASIC and EDA industries.

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Mainframe computer

A mainframe computer, informally called a mainframe or big iron, is a computer used primarily by large organizations for critical applications like bulk data processing for tasks such as censuses, industry and consumer statistics, enterprise resource planning, and large-scale transaction processing.

See SPARC and Mainframe computer

MB86900

The MB86900 is a microprocessor produced by Fujitsu, which implements the SPARC V7 instruction set architecture developed by Sun Microsystems. SPARC and MB86900 are sun microprocessors.

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MCST

MCST (МЦСТ, acronym for Moscow Center of SPARC Technologies) is a Russian microprocessor company that was set up in 1992.

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MCST-R1000

The MCST R1000 (МЦСТ R1000) is a 64-bit microprocessor developed by Moscow Center of SPARC Technologies (MCST) and fabricated by TSMC.

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MCST-R2000

The MCST R2000, (e90), (МЦСТ R2000) is a 64-bit microprocessor developed by Moscow Center of SPARC Technologies (MCST) and fabricated by TSMC.

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Meiko Scientific

Meiko Scientific Ltd. was a British supercomputer company based in Bristol, founded by members of the design team working on the Inmos transputer microprocessor.

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Memory barrier

In computing, a memory barrier, also known as a membar, memory fence or fence instruction, is a type of barrier instruction that causes a central processing unit (CPU) or compiler to enforce an ordering constraint on memory operations issued before and after the barrier instruction.

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Memory management unit

A memory management unit (MMU), sometimes called paged memory management unit (PMMU), is a computer hardware unit that examines all memory references on the memory bus, translating these requests, known as virtual memory addresses, into physical addresses in main memory.

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Memory paging

In computer operating systems, memory paging (or swapping on some Unix-like systems) is a memory management scheme by which a computer stores and retrieves data from secondary storage for use in main memory.

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Metaflow Technologies

Metaflow Technologies was a La Jolla, California-based microprocessor design company.

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MicroSPARC

The microSPARC (code-named Tsunami) is a discontinued microprocessor implementing the SPARC V8 instruction set architecture (ISA), developed by Sun Microsystems. SPARC and microSPARC are sun microprocessors.

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MIPS architecture

MIPS (Microprocessor without Interlocked Pipelined Stages) is a family of reduced instruction set computer (RISC) instruction set architectures (ISA)Price, Charles (September 1995). SPARC and MIPS architecture are computer-related introductions in 1985.

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ML (programming language)

ML (Meta Language) is a general-purpose, high-level, functional programming language.

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Motorola 68000 series

The Motorola 68000 series (also known as 680x0, m68000, m68k, or 68k) is a family of 32-bit complex instruction set computer (CISC) microprocessors. SPARC and Motorola 68000 series are 32-bit computers.

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MP4 file format

MPEG-4 Part 14, or MP4, is a digital multimedia container format most commonly used to store video and audio, but it can also be used to store other data such as subtitles and still images.

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National University of Defense Technology

The National University of Defense Technology (NUDT) is a national public research university headquartered in Kaifu, Changsha, Hunan, China.

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NetBSD

NetBSD is a free and open-source Unix-like operating system based on the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD).

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NeXTSTEP

NeXTSTEP is a discontinued object-oriented, multitasking operating system based on the Mach kernel and the UNIX-derived BSD.

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Non-uniform memory access

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.

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Nvidia

Nvidia Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, and incorporated in Delaware.

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Open-source hardware

Open-source hardware (OSH, OSHW) consists of physical artifacts of technology designed and offered by the open-design movement.

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Open-source software

Open-source software (OSS) is computer software that is released under a license in which the copyright holder grants users the rights to use, study, change, and distribute the software and its source code to anyone and for any purpose.

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OpenBSD

OpenBSD is a security-focused, free and open-source, Unix-like operating system based on the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD).

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OpenIndiana

OpenIndiana is a free and open-source illumos distribution descended from UNIX System V Release 4 via the OpenSolaris operating system.

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OpenSolaris

OpenSolaris is a discontinued open-source computer operating system based on Solaris and created by Sun Microsystems.

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OpenSPARC

OpenSPARC is an open-source hardware project, started in December 2005, for CPUs implementing the SPARC instruction architecture. SPARC and OpenSPARC are sun microprocessors.

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Operating system

An operating system (OS) is system software that manages computer hardware and software resources, and provides common services for computer programs.

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Oracle Corporation

Oracle Corporation is an American multinational computer technology company headquartered in Austin, Texas.

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Oracle Solaris

Solaris is a proprietary Unix operating system originally developed by Sun Microsystems.

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Oracle VM Server for SPARC

Logical Domains (LDoms or LDOM) is the server virtualization and partitioning technology for SPARC V9 processors.

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OSNews

OSNews is a computing online newspaper.

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Panasonic

is a Japanese multinational electronics company, headquartered in Kadoma, Osaka, Japan.

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Philips

Koninklijke Philips N.V., commonly shortened to Philips, is a Dutch multinational conglomerate corporation that was founded in Eindhoven in 1891.

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Prentice Hall

Prentice Hall was a major American educational publisher.

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PRIMEHPC FX10

The PRIMEHPC FX10 is a supercomputer designed and manufactured by Fujitsu.

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Processor register

A processor register is a quickly accessible location available to a computer's processor.

See SPARC and Processor register

Program counter

The program counter (PC), commonly called the instruction pointer (IP) in Intel x86 and Itanium microprocessors, and sometimes called the instruction address register (IAR), the instruction counter, or just part of the instruction sequencer, is a processor register that indicates where a computer is in its program sequence.

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Quadruple-precision floating-point format

In computing, quadruple precision (or quad precision) is a binary floating-point–based computer number format that occupies 16 bytes (128 bits) with precision at least twice the 53-bit double precision.

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Radiation hardening

Radiation hardening is the process of making electronic components and circuits resistant to damage or malfunction caused by high levels of ionizing radiation (particle radiation and high-energy electromagnetic radiation), especially for environments in outer space (especially beyond low Earth orbit), around nuclear reactors and particle accelerators, or during nuclear accidents or nuclear warfare.

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Reduced instruction set computer

In electronics and computer science, a reduced instruction set computer (RISC) is a computer architecture designed to simplify the individual instructions given to the computer to accomplish tasks.

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Register file

A register file is an array of processor registers in a central processing unit (CPU).

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Register window

In computer engineering, register windows are a feature which dedicates registers to a subroutine by dynamically aliasing a subset of internal registers to fixed, programmer-visible registers.

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Rock (processor)

Rock (or ROCK) was a multithreading, multicore, SPARC microprocessor under development at Sun Microsystems. SPARC and Rock (processor) are sun microprocessors.

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Ross Technology

Ross Technology, Inc. was a semiconductor design and manufacturing company, specializing in SPARC microprocessors.

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RTEMS

Real-Time Executive for Multiprocessor Systems (RTEMS), formerly Real-Time Executive for Missile Systems, and then Real-Time Executive for Military Systems, is a real-time operating system (RTOS) designed for embedded systems.

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Runtime system

In computer programming, a runtime system or runtime environment is a sub-system that exists both in the computer where a program is created, as well as in the computers where the program is intended to be run.

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S1 Core

S1 Core (codename Sirocco) is an open source hardware microprocessor design developed by Simply RISC.

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Server (computing)

A server is a computer that provides information to other computers called "clients" on computer network.

See SPARC and Server (computing)

Single-precision floating-point format

Single-precision floating-point format (sometimes called FP32 or float32) is a computer number format, usually occupying 32 bits in computer memory; it represents a wide dynamic range of numeric values by using a floating radix point.

See SPARC and Single-precision floating-point format

Solbourne Computer

Solbourne Computer, Inc. was originally a vendor of computer systems based in Longmont, Colorado, United States, at first 52% owned by Matsushita.

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Source code

In computing, source code, or simply code or source, is a plain text computer program written in a programming language.

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SPARC T series

The SPARC T-series family of RISC processors and server computers, based on the SPARC V9 architecture, was originally developed by Sun Microsystems, and later by Oracle Corporation after its acquisition of Sun.

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SPARC T3

The SPARC T3 microprocessor (previously known as UltraSPARC T3, codenamed Rainbow Falls, and also known as UltraSPARC KT or Niagara-3 during development) is a multithreading, multi-core CPU produced by Oracle Corporation (previously Sun Microsystems). SPARC and SPARC T3 are sun microprocessors.

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SPARC T4

The SPARC T4 is a SPARC multicore microprocessor introduced in 2011 by Oracle Corporation.

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SPARC T5

SPARC T5 is the fifth generation multicore microprocessor of Oracle's SPARC T series family.

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SPARC64 V

The SPARC64 V (Zeus) is a SPARC V9 microprocessor designed by Fujitsu.

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Sparcle

The Sparcle is an experimental 32-bit microprocessor chip developed in 1992 by a consortium of MIT, LSI Corporation, and Sun Microsystems.

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SPARClite

The discontinued SPARClite RISC processor family was based on the 32-bit SPARC V8 architecture.

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Stack (abstract data type)

In computer science, a stack is an abstract data type that serves as a collection of elements with two main operations.

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Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation

The Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC) is a non-profit consortium that establishes and maintains standardized benchmarks and performance evaluation tools for new generations of computing systems.

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Status register

A status register, flag register, or condition code register (CCR) is a collection of status flag bits for a processor.

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Sun Microsystems

Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Sun for short) was an American technology company that sold computers, computer components, software, and information technology services and created the Java programming language, the Solaris operating system, ZFS, the Network File System (NFS), and SPARC microprocessors.

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Sun-3

Sun-3 is a series of UNIX computer workstations and servers produced by Sun Microsystems, launched on September 9, 1985. SPARC and Sun-3 are 32-bit computers and computer-related introductions in 1985.

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Sun-4

Sun-4 is a series of Unix workstations and servers produced by Sun Microsystems, launched in 1987. SPARC and Sun-4 are 32-bit computers.

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SunOS

SunOS is a Unix-branded operating system developed by Sun Microsystems for their workstation and server computer systems.

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SuperSPARC

The SuperSPARC is a microprocessor that implements the SPARC V8 instruction set architecture (ISA) developed by Sun Microsystems. SPARC and SuperSPARC are sun microprocessors.

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Symmetric multiprocessing

Symmetric multiprocessing or shared-memory multiprocessing (SMP) involves a multiprocessor computer hardware and software architecture where two or more identical processors are connected to a single, shared main memory, have full access to all input and output devices, and are controlled by a single operating system instance that treats all processors equally, reserving none for special purposes.

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SystemVerilog

SystemVerilog, standardized as IEEE 1800, is a hardware description and hardware verification language used to model, design, simulate, test and implement electronic systems.

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Tagged architecture

In computer science, a tagged architecture is a type of computer architecture where every word of memory constitutes a tagged union, being divided into a number of bits of data, and a tag section that describes the type of the data: how it is to be interpreted, and, if it is a reference, the type of the object that it points to.

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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) is an American multinational semiconductor company headquartered in Dallas, Texas.

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The Inquirer

The Inquirer (stylized as TheINQUIRER) was a British technology tabloid website founded by Mike Magee after his departure from The Register (of which he was one of the founding members) in 2001.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The Register

The Register is a British technology news website co-founded in 1994 by Mike Magee and John Lettice.

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Tianhe-2

Tianhe-2 or TH-2 (i.e. 'Milky Way 2') is a 3.86-petaflop supercomputer located in the National Supercomputer Center in Guangzhou, China. SPARC and Tianhe-2 are 64-bit computers.

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TOP500

The TOP500 project ranks and details the 500 most powerful non-distributed computer systems in the world.

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TurboSPARC

The TurboSPARC is a microprocessor that implements the SPARC V8 instruction set architecture (ISA) developed by Fujitsu Microelectronics, Inc.

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UltraSPARC

The UltraSPARC is a microprocessor developed by Sun Microsystems and fabricated by Texas Instruments, introduced in mid-1995. SPARC and UltraSPARC are sun microprocessors.

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UltraSPARC II

The UltraSPARC II, code-named "Blackbird", is a microprocessor implementation of the SPARC V9 instruction set architecture (ISA) developed by Sun Microsystems. SPARC and UltraSPARC II are sun microprocessors.

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UltraSPARC III

The UltraSPARC III, code-named "Cheetah", is a microprocessor that implements the SPARC V9 instruction set architecture (ISA) developed by Sun Microsystems and fabricated by Texas Instruments. SPARC and UltraSPARC III are sun microprocessors.

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UltraSPARC IV

The UltraSPARC IV Jaguar and follow-up UltraSPARC IV+ Panther are microprocessors designed by Sun Microsystems and manufactured by Texas Instruments. SPARC and UltraSPARC IV are sun microprocessors.

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UltraSPARC T1

Sun Microsystems' UltraSPARC T1 microprocessor, known until its 14 November 2005 announcement by its development codename "Niagara", is a multithreading, multicore CPU. SPARC and UltraSPARC T1 are sun microprocessors.

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UltraSPARC T2

Sun Microsystems' UltraSPARC T2 microprocessor is a multithreading, multi-core CPU. SPARC and UltraSPARC T2 are sun microprocessors.

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University of California, Berkeley

The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California.

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Verilog

Verilog, standardized as IEEE 1364, is a hardware description language (HDL) used to model electronic systems.

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VHDL

VHDL (VHSIC Hardware Description Language) is a hardware description language that can model the behavior and structure of digital systems at multiple levels of abstraction, ranging from the system level down to that of logic gates, for design entry, documentation, and verification purposes.

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Visual Instruction Set

Visual Instruction Set, or VIS, is a SIMD instruction set extension for SPARC V9 microprocessors developed by Sun Microsystems. SPARC and Visual Instruction Set are SPARC microprocessor architecture.

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Weitek

Weitek Corporation was an American chip-design company that originally focused on floating-point units for a number of commercial CPU designs.

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Windows NT

Windows NT is a proprietary graphical operating system produced by Microsoft as part of its Windows product line, the first version of which, Windows NT 3.1, was released on July 27, 1993.

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Workstation

A workstation is a special computer designed for technical or scientific applications.

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X86

x86 (also known as 80x86 or the 8086 family) is a family of complex instruction set computer (CISC) instruction set architectures initially developed by Intel based on the 8086 microprocessor and its 8-bit-external-bus variant, the 8088.

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ZDNET

ZDNET is a business technology news website owned and operated by Red Ventures.

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32-bit computing

In computer architecture, 32-bit computing refers to computer systems with a processor, memory, and other major system components that operate on data in 32-bit units.

See SPARC and 32-bit computing

64-bit computing

In computer architecture, 64-bit integers, memory addresses, or other data units are those that are 64 bits wide. SPARC and 64-bit computing are 64-bit computers.

See SPARC and 64-bit computing

See also

SPARC microprocessor architecture

Sun microprocessors

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPARC

Also known as SPARC International, SPARC V7, SPARC V8, SPARC V8E, SPARC V9, SPARC processor architecture, SPARCv9, Scalable Processor ARChitecture, Silicon secured memory, Sparc 32, Sun SPARC.

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