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Order Number: 270775-005

80960KA

EMBEDDED 32-BIT MICROPROCESSOR

The 80960KA is a member of Intel’s i960® 32-bit processor family, which is designed especially for embedded

applications. It includes a 512-byte instruction cache and a built-in interrupt controller. The 80960KA has a large

register set, multiple parallel execution units and a high-bandwidth burst bus. Using advanced RISC technology,

this high performance processor is capable of execution rates in excess of 9.4 million instructions per second

The 80960KA is well-suited for a wide range of applications including non-impact printers, I/O control and

specialty instrumentation.

Figure 1. The 80960KA Processor’s Highly Parallel Architecture

* Relative to Digital Equipment Corporation’s VAX-11/780 at 1 MIPS (VAX-11™ is a trademark of Digital Equipment

Corporation)

s High-Performance Embedded Architecture

— 25 MIPS Burst Execution at 25 MHz

— 9.4 MIPS* Sustained Execution at 25 MHz

s 512-Byte On-Chip Instruction Cache

— Direct Mapped

— Parallel Load/Decode for Uncached Instruc-

tions

s Multiple Register Sets

— Sixteen Global 32-Bit Registers

— Sixteen Local 32-Bit Registers

— Four Local Register Sets Stored On-Chip

— Register Scoreboarding

s 4 Gigabyte, Linear Address Space

s Pin Compatible with 80960KB

s Built-in Interrupt Controller

— 31 Priority Levels, 256 Vectors

— 3.4 µs Latency @ 25 MHz

s Easy to Use, High Bandwidth 32-Bit Bus

— 66.7 Mbytes/s Burst

— Up to 16 Bytes Transferred per Burst

s 132-Lead Packages:

— Pin Grid Array (PGA)

— Plastic Quad Flat-Pack (PQFP)

SIXTEEN

32-BIT GLOBAL

REGISTERS

64- BY 32-BIT

LOCAL

REGISTER

CACHE

32-BIT

INSTRUCTION

EXECUTION

UNIT

INSTRUCTION

FETCH UNIT

512-BYTE

INSTRUCTION

CACHE

INSTRUCTION

DECODER

MICRO-

INSTRUCTION

SEQUENCER

MICRO-

INSTRUCTION

ROM

32-BIT

BUS

CONTROL

LOGIC

32-BIT

BURST

BUS