The MCST R500S () is a 32-bit

system-on-a-chip A system on a chip (SoC) is an integrated circuit that combines most or all key components of a computer or electronic system onto a single microchip. Typically, an SoC includes a central processing unit (CPU) with memory, input/output, and dat ...

, developed by

Moscow Center of SPARC Technologies (MCST) MCST (, acronym for Moscow Center of SPARC Technologies) is a Russian microprocessor company that was set up in 1992. Different types of processors made by MCST were used in personal computers, servers and computing systems. MCST develops micro ...

and fabricated by

TSMC Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited (TSMC or Taiwan Semiconductor) is a Taiwanese multinational semiconductor contract manufacturing and design company. It is one of the world's most valuable semiconductor companies, the world' ...

MCST R500S Highlights

*implements the SPARC V8 instruction set architecture (ISA) *

dual-core A multi-core processor (MCP) is a microprocessor on a single integrated circuit (IC) with two or more separate central processing units (CPUs), called ''cores'' to emphasize their multiplicity (for example, ''dual-core'' or ''quad-core''). Ea ...

*the two cores can work in redundancy to increase reliability of the system. *core specifications: **in-order, single-issue **5-stage integer

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**7-stage floating-point

**16 KB L1 instruction cache **32 KB L1 data cache *shared 512KB L2 cache *integrated controllers: **memory **PCI **RDMA (to connect with other MCST R500S) **MSI ( Mbus and

SBus SBus is a computer bus system that was used in most SPARC-based computers (including all SPARCstations) from Sun Microsystems and others during the 1990s. It was introduced by Sun in 1989 to be a high-speed bus counterpart to their high-speed ...

) **EBus **PS/2 **Ethernet 100 **SCSI-2 **RS-232 *500 МHz

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130 nm process The 130 nanometer (130 nm) process is a level of semiconductor process technology that was reached in the 2000–2001 timeframe by such leading semiconductor companies as Intel, Texas Instruments, IBM, and TSMC. The origin of the 130 nm va ...

*die size 100 mm² *~45 million transistors *power consumption 5W

References

"https://web.archive.org/web/20151101211823/http://www.mcst.ru/b_18-19.shtml"
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