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class="infobox"><caption class="infobox-title">UltraSPARC</caption><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:KL_Sun_UltraSparc.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/KL_Sun_UltraSparc.jpg/250px-KL_Sun_UltraSparc.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="253" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/KL_Sun_UltraSparc.jpg/375px-KL_Sun_UltraSparc.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/KL_Sun_UltraSparc.jpg/500px-KL_Sun_UltraSparc.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="1212" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">A 200 MHz UltraSPARC microprocessor</div></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">General information</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Launched</th><td class="infobox-data">1995</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Discontinued</th><td class="infobox-data">1997</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Designed by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Sun_Microsystems" title="Sun Microsystems">Sun Microsystems</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Performance</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Max. <a href="/wiki/Central_processing_unit" title="Central processing unit">CPU</a> <a href="/wiki/Clock_rate" title="Clock rate">clock rate</a></th><td class="infobox-data">143&#160;MHz to 200&#160;MHz</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Architecture and classification</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Instruction_set_architecture" title="Instruction set architecture">Instruction&#160;set</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/SPARC_V9" class="mw-redirect" title="SPARC V9">SPARC V9</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Physical specifications</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Multi-core_processor" title="Multi-core processor">Cores</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"><ul><li>1</li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">History</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Predecessor</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/SuperSPARC" title="SuperSPARC">SuperSPARC</a> II</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Successor</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/UltraSPARC_II" title="UltraSPARC II">UltraSPARC II</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The <b>UltraSPARC</b> is a <a href="/wiki/Microprocessor" title="Microprocessor">microprocessor</a> developed by <a href="/wiki/Sun_Microsystems" title="Sun Microsystems">Sun Microsystems</a> and fabricated by <a href="/wiki/Texas_Instruments" title="Texas Instruments">Texas Instruments</a>, introduced in mid-1995. It is the first microprocessor from Sun to implement the 64-bit <a href="/wiki/SPARC_V9" class="mw-redirect" title="SPARC V9">SPARC V9</a> <a href="/wiki/Instruction_set_architecture" title="Instruction set architecture">instruction set architecture</a> (ISA). <a href="/wiki/Marc_Tremblay" title="Marc Tremblay">Marc Tremblay</a> was a co-microarchitect. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Microarchitecture">Microarchitecture</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=UltraSPARC&amp;action=edit&amp;section=1" title="Edit section: Microarchitecture"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The UltraSPARC is a four-issue <a href="/wiki/Superscalar" class="mw-redirect" title="Superscalar">superscalar</a> microprocessor that executes instructions in <a href="/wiki/Out-of-order_execution#In-order_processors" title="Out-of-order execution">in-order</a>. It includes a nine-stage integer <a href="/wiki/Instruction_pipeline" class="mw-redirect" title="Instruction pipeline">pipeline</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Functional_units">Functional units</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=UltraSPARC&amp;action=edit&amp;section=2" title="Edit section: Functional units"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The execution units were simplified relative to the SuperSPARC to achieve higher clock frequencies - an example of a simplification is that the ALUs were not cascaded, unlike the SuperSPARC, to avoid restricting clock frequency. </p><p>The integer <a href="/wiki/Register_file" title="Register file">register file</a> has 32 64-bit entries. As the SPARC ISA uses <a href="/wiki/Register_window" title="Register window">register windows</a>, of which the UltraSPARC has eight, the actual number of registers is 144. The register file has seven read and three write ports. The integer register file provides registers to two <a href="/wiki/Arithmetic_logic_unit" title="Arithmetic logic unit">arithmetic logic units</a> and the load/store unit. The two ALUs can both execute arithmetic, logic and shift instructions but only one can execute multiply and divide instructions. </p><p>The floating-point unit consists of five functional units. One executes floating point adds and subtracts, one multiplies, one divides and square-roots. Two units are for executing SIMD instructions defined by the <a href="/wiki/Visual_Instruction_Set" title="Visual Instruction Set">Visual Instruction Set</a> (VIS). The floating-point register file contains thirty-two 64-bit registers. It has five read ports and three write ports. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Cache">Cache</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=UltraSPARC&amp;action=edit&amp;section=3" title="Edit section: Cache"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The UltraSPARC has two levels of cache, primary and secondary. There are two primary caches, one for instructions and one for data. Both have a capacity of 16 KB. </p><p>The UltraSPARC required a mandatory external secondary cache. The cache is unified, has a capacity of 512 KB to 4 MB and is direct-mapped. It can return data in a single cycle. The external cache is implemented with synchronous SRAMs clocked at the same frequency as the microprocessor, as ratios were not supported. It is accessed via the data bus. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Fabrication">Fabrication</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=UltraSPARC&amp;action=edit&amp;section=4" title="Edit section: Fabrication"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>It contained 3.8 million transistors. It was fabricated in Texas Instruments' EPIC-3 process, a 0.5 μm <a href="/wiki/Complementary_metal%E2%80%93oxide%E2%80%93semiconductor" class="mw-redirect" title="Complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor">complementary metal&#8211;oxide&#8211;semiconductor</a> (CMOS) process with four levels of metal. The UltraSPARC was not fabricated in a <a href="/wiki/BiCMOS" title="BiCMOS">BiCMOS</a> process as Texas Instruments claimed it did not scale well to 0.5 μm processes and offered little performance improvement. The process was perfected on TI's MVP <a href="/wiki/Digital_signal_processor" title="Digital signal processor">digital signal processor</a> (DSP) with some features missing such as three levels of metal instead of four and a 0.55 feature size, before it was used to fabricate the UltraSPARC to avoid a repeat of the fabrication problems encountered with <a href="/wiki/SuperSPARC" title="SuperSPARC">SuperSPARC</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Package">Package</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=UltraSPARC&amp;action=edit&amp;section=5" title="Edit section: Package"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The UltraSPARC is packaged in a 521-contact plastic <a href="/wiki/Ball_grid_array" title="Ball grid array">ball grid array</a> (PBGA). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Related_processors">Related processors</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=UltraSPARC&amp;action=edit&amp;section=6" title="Edit section: Related processors"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/SuperSPARC" title="SuperSPARC">SuperSPARC</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/UltraSPARC_II" title="UltraSPARC II">UltraSPARC II</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/UltraSPARC_III" title="UltraSPARC III">UltraSPARC III</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/UltraSPARC_IV" title="UltraSPARC IV">UltraSPARC IV</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=UltraSPARC&amp;action=edit&amp;section=7" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Greenley, D. et al. (1995). "UltraSPARC: The next generation superscalar 64-bit SPARC". <i>Proceedings of Compcon '95</i>: pp. 442&#8211;451.</li> <li>Gwennap, Linley (3 October 1994). "UltraSparc Unleashes SPARC Performance". <i><a href="/wiki/Microprocessor_Report" title="Microprocessor Report">Microprocessor Report</a></i>, Volume 8, Number 13.</li> <li>Gwennap, Linley (5 December 1994). 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