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Functional Description

MC68060 MPU

The MC68060 microprocessor is the main processor for the

MVME177. The superscalar MC68060 processor has:

Two MC68040-compatible CPU integer cores

MC68040-compatible floating point core

Independent 8KB instruction and operand data caches

MC68040-compatible paged memory management unit

A bus controller

The processor is in a PGA socket. Its clock speed is 50 MHz (for the -00xmodels), and 60 MHz (for the -01xmodels). Note that the local processor bus runs at only half the processor speed. Refer to the MC68060 user's manual for more information.

Flash Memory and EPROM

Flash Memory

The MVME177 includes four 28F008SA Flash memory devices. The Flash devices provide 4MB of ROM at address $FF800000- $FFBFFFFF. The Flash is organized as one 32-bit bank for 32-bit code execution from the processor. The Flash could, for instance, be used for the onboard debugger firmware (177Bug) which would be downloaded from I/O resources such as:

Ethernet

SCSI

A serial port, or

The VMEbus

When Flash is used with EPROM, either the top or bottom 2MB of Flash is available in the second 2MB of memory space after the EPROM. Refer to Table 4-1 below.

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Motorola MVME177 manual MC68060 MPU, Flash Memory and Eprom