Saturday, December 18, 2010

Some of old Processors






The Freescale 683xx (formerly Motorola 683xx) is a family of compatible microcontrollers that use a Freescale 68000-based CPU core. The family was designed using a Hardware Description Language, making the parts synthesizable, and amenable to improved fabrication processes, such as die shrinks.
There are two CPU cores used in the 683xx family: the 68EC000 and the CPU32. The instruction set of the CPU32 core is similar to the 68020 without bitfield instructions, and with a few instructions unique to the CPU32 core, such as table lookup and interpolate instructions, and a low-power stop mode.
The modules of the microcontroller were designed independently and released as new CPUs could be tested. This process let the architects perform "design-ahead" so that when silicon technlogies were available, Motorola had designs ready to implement and go to market. Many of these submodules have been carried forward into the Coldfire line of processors.


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