SPARC (Scalable Processor ARChitecture) is a reduced instruction set computer (RISC) instruction set architecture originally developed by Sun Microsystems...
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The ANSI-SPARC Architecture (American National Standards Institute, Standards Planning And Requirements Committee), is an abstract design standard for...
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The SPARC Enterprise series is a range of UNIX server computers based on the SPARC V9 architecture. It was co-developed by Sun Microsystems and Fujitsu...
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dedicated cryptographic unit per core. The cores use the 64-bit SPARC Version 9 architecture running at frequencies between 2.85 GHz and 3.0 GHz, and are...
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x86 architecture as well as several 8-bit architectures are little-endian. Most RISC architectures (SPARC, Power, PowerPC, MIPS) were originally big-endian...
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SPARC T5 is the fifth generation multicore microprocessor of Oracle's SPARC T series family. It was first presented at Hot Chips 24 in August 2012, and...
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ISBN 978-0-12-374493-7. Patterson, David; Hennessy, John (2011). Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach (5th ed.). Morgan Kaufmann. ISBN 978-0-12-383872-8...
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SPARC (Scalable Processor Architecture) is a computer instruction set architecture. SPARC may also refer to: Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources...
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The SPARC T-series family of RISC processors and server computers, based on the SPARC V9 architecture, was originally developed by Sun Microsystems, and...
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Sun to implement the 64-bit SPARC V9 instruction set architecture (ISA). Marc Tremblay was a co-microarchitect. The UltraSPARC is a four-issue superscalar...
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Architectural Manual, Version 8". SPARC International. p. 244. The SPARC Architecture Manual, Version 9 (PDF). SPARC International. 1994. F.3.2 Attributes...
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new-from-the-ground-up SPARC microprocessor implementation that conforms to the UltraSPARC Architecture 2005 specification and executes the full SPARC V9 instruction...
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between registers).: 9–12 Some RISC architectures such as PowerPC, SPARC, RISC-V, ARM, and MIPS are load–store architectures.: 9–12 For instance, in a load–store...
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The microSPARC (code-named Tsunami) is a discontinued microprocessor implementing the SPARC V8 instruction set architecture (ISA), developed by Sun Microsystems...
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Reduced instruction set computer (redirect from RISC architecture)
as the MIPS and SPARC systems. IBM eventually produced RISC designs based on further work on the 801 concept, the IBM POWER architecture, PowerPC, and Power...
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VAX-11/784 superminicomputer. The only systems that beat it were the Sun SPARC and MIPS R2000 RISC-based workstations. Further, as the CPU was designed...
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exception occurs SPARC International, Inc. The SPARC Architecture Manual, Version 9. PTR Prentice Hall. Sun Microsystems. UltraSPARC Architecture 2005. Draft...
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Sun Microsystems (section SPARC-based systems)
computer servers and workstations built on its own RISC-based SPARC processor architecture, as well as on x86-based AMD Opteron and Intel Xeon processors...
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The UltraSPARC III, code-named "Cheetah", is a microprocessor that implements the SPARC V9 instruction set architecture (ISA) developed by Sun Microsystems...
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fourth generation of UltraSPARC microprocessors, and implement the 64-bit SPARC V9 instruction set architecture (ISA). The UltraSPARC IV was originally to...
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OpenSPARC is an open-source hardware project, started in December 2005, for CPUs implementing the SPARC instruction architecture. The initial contribution...
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reconfigured as needed. SPARC hypervisors run in hyperprivileged execution mode, which was introduced in the sun4v architecture. The sun4v processors released...
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The SPARC T3 microprocessor (previously known as UltraSPARC T3, codenamed Rainbow Falls and also referred to as UltraSPARC KT or Niagara-3 during development)...
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and SPARC uses "output register 7" or o7. In some others, such as PA-RISC, RISC-V, and the IBM System/360 and its successors, including z/Architecture, the...
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enforcing page coloring, which is described below. Some early RISC processors (SPARC, RS/6000) took this approach. It has not been used recently, as the hardware...
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The SuperSPARC is a microprocessor that implements the SPARC V8 instruction set architecture (ISA) developed by Sun Microsystems. 33 and 40 MHz versions...
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is a proliferation of side-channel attacks plaguing modern computer architectures. Many of these attacks measure slight, nondeterministic variations in...
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the in and out instructions found on microprocessors based on the x86 architecture. Different forms of these two instructions can copy one, two or four...
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The UltraSPARC II, code-named "Blackbird", is a microprocessor implementation of the SPARC V9 instruction set architecture (ISA) developed by Sun Microsystems...
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Microsystems' UltraSPARC T2 microprocessor is a multithreading, multi-core CPU. It is a member of the SPARC family, and the successor to the UltraSPARC T1. The chip...
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