SPARC

SPARC

Designer	Sun Microsystems (acquired by Oracle Corporation)
Bits	64-bit (32 → 64)
Introduced	1987 (shipments)
Version	V9 (1993) / OSA2015
Design	RISC
Type	Register-Register
Encoding	Fixed
Branching	Condition code
Endianness	Bi (Big → Bi)
Page size	8 KiB (4 KiB → 8 KiB)
Extensions	VIS 1.0, 2.0, 3.0 4.0
Open	Yes, and royalty free.
Registers
General purpose	31 (G0 = 0; non-global registers use register windows)
Floating point	32 (usable as 32 single-precision, 32 double-precision, or 16 quad-precision)

Sun UltraSPARC II Microprocessor (1997)

SPARC (from "scalable processor architecture") is a RISC instruction set architecture (ISA) developed by Sun Microsystems and introduced in mid-1987.

SPARC is a registered trademark of SPARC International, Inc., an organization established in 1989 to promote the SPARC architecture, manage SPARC trademarks, and provide conformance testing. Implementations of the original 32-bit SPARC architecture were initially designed and used in Sun's Sun-4 workstation and server systems, replacing their earlier Sun-3 systems based on the Motorola 68000 series of processors. Later, SPARC processors were used in SMP and CC-NUMA servers produced by Sun, Solbourne and Fujitsu, among others, and designed for 64-bit operation.

SPARC International was intended to open the SPARC architecture to make a larger ecosystem for the design, which has been licensed to several manufacturers, including Texas Instruments, Atmel, Cypress Semiconductor, and Fujitsu. As a result of SPARC International, the SPARC architecture is fully open, non-proprietary and royalty free.

In March 2006, the complete design of Sun's UltraSPARC T1 microprocessor was released in open-source form at OpenSPARC.net and named the OpenSPARC T1. In 2007 the design of Sun's UltraSPARC T2 microprocessor was also released in open-source form as OpenSPARC T2.^[1]

The most recent commercial iterations of the SPARC processor design are the Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd.'s 34 core SPARC64 XIfx 2.2 GHz of 1.1 TFLOPS introduced 2015, which is used in the supercomputer PRIMEHPC FX100; the Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd.'s 16 core SPARC64 X+ introduced in 2014,^[2] running at 3.2 GHz; the 32 core SPARC M7 introduced by Oracle Corporation in October 2015 running at 4.133 GHz.

Features

The SPARC architecture was heavily influenced by the earlier RISC designs including the RISC I and II from the University of California, Berkeley and the IBM 801. These original RISC designs were minimalist, including as few features or op-codes as possible and aiming to execute instructions at a rate of almost one instruction per clock cycle. This made them similar to the MIPS architecture in many ways, including the lack of instructions such as multiply or divide. Another feature of SPARC influenced by this early RISC movement is the branch delay slot.

The SPARC processor usually contains as many as 160 general purpose registers. At any point, only 32 of them are immediately visible to software – 8 are a set of global registers (one of which, g0, is hard-wired to zero, so only 7 of them are usable as registers) and the other 24 are from the stack of registers. These 24 registers form what is called a register window, and at function call/return, this window is moved up and down the register stack. Each window has 8 local registers and shares 8 registers with each of the adjacent windows. The shared registers are used for passing function parameters and returning values, and the local registers are used for retaining local values across function calls.

The "Scalable" in SPARC comes from the fact that the SPARC specification allows implementations to scale from embedded processors up through large server processors, all sharing the same core (non-privileged) instruction set. One of the architectural parameters that can scale is the number of implemented register windows; the specification allows from 3 to 32 windows to be implemented, so the implementation can choose to implement all 32 to provide maximum call stack efficiency, or to implement only 3 to reduce cost and complexity of the design, or to implement some number between them. Other architectures that include similar register file features include Intel i960, IA-64, and AMD 29000.

The architecture has gone through several revisions. It gained hardware multiply and divide functionality in Version 8.^[3][4] 64-bit (addressing and data) were added to the version 9 SPARC specification published in 1994.^[5]

In SPARC Version 8, the floating point register file has 16 double precision registers. Each of them can be used as two single precision registers, providing a total of 32 single precision registers. An odd-even number pair of double precision registers can be used as a quad precision register, thus allowing 8 quad precision registers. SPARC Version 9 added 16 more double precision registers (which can also be accessed as 8 quad precision registers), but these additional registers can not be accessed as single precision registers. No SPARC CPU implements quad-precision operations in hardware as of 2004.^[6]

Tagged add and subtract instructions perform adds and subtracts on values checking that the bottom two bits of both operands are 0 and reporting overflow if they are not. This can be useful in the implementation of the run time for ML, Lisp, and similar languages that might use a tagged integer format.

The endianness of the 32-bit SPARC V8 architecture is purely big-endian. The 64-bit SPARC V9 architecture uses big-endian instructions, but can access data in either big-endian or little-endian byte order, chosen either at the application instruction (load/store) level or at the memory page level (via an MMU setting). The latter is often used for accessing data from inherently little-endian devices, such as those on PCI buses.

History

There have been three major revisions of the architecture. The first published revision was the 32-bit SPARC Version 7 (V7) in 1986. SPARC Version 8 (V8), an enhanced SPARC architecture definition, was released in 1990. The main differences between V7 and V8 were the addition of integer multiply and divide instructions, and an upgrade from 80-bit "extended precision" floating-point arithmetic to 128-bit "quad-precision" arithmetic. SPARC V8 served as the basis for IEEE Standard 1754-1994, an IEEE standard for a 32-bit microprocessor architecture.

SPARC Version 9, the 64-bit SPARC architecture, was released by SPARC International in 1993. It was developed by the SPARC Architecture Committee consisting of Amdahl Corporation, Fujitsu, ICL, LSI Logic, Matsushita, Philips, Ross Technology, Sun Microsystems, and Texas Instruments. Newer specifications always remain compliant with the full SPARC V9 Level 1 specification.

In 2002, the SPARC Joint Programming Specification 1 (JPS1) was released by Fujitsu and Sun, describing processor functions which were identically implemented in the CPUs of both companies ("Commonality"). The first CPUs conforming to JPS1 were the UltraSPARC III by Sun and the SPARC64 V by Fujitsu. Functionalities which are not covered by JPS1 are documented for each processor in "Implementation Supplements".

At the end of 2003, JPS2 was released to support multicore CPUs. The first CPUs conforming to JPS2 were the UltraSPARC IV by Sun and the SPARC64 VI by Fujitsu.

In early 2006, Sun released an extended architecture specification, UltraSPARC Architecture 2005. This includes not only the non-privileged and most of the privileged portions of SPARC V9, but also all the architectural extensions developed through the processor generations of UltraSPARC III, IV, IV+ as well as CMT extensions starting with the UltraSPARC T1 implementation:

• the VIS 1 and VIS 2 instruction set extensions and the associated GSR register
• multiple levels of global registers, controlled by the GL register
• Sun’s 64-bit MMU architecture
• privileged instructions ALLCLEAN, OTHERW, NORMALW, and INVALW
• access to the VER register is now hyperprivileged
• the SIR instruction is now hyperprivileged

In 2007, Sun released an updated specification, UltraSPARC Architecture 2007, to which the UltraSPARC T2 implementation complied.

In August, 2012, Oracle Corporation made available a new specification, Oracle SPARC Architecture 2011, which besides the overall update of the reference, adds the VIS 3 instruction set extensions and hyperprivileged mode to the 2007 specification.^[7]

In October, 2015, Oracle released SPARC M7, the first processor based on the new Oracle SPARC Architecture 2015 specification.^[8][9] This revision includes VIS 4 instruction set extensions.

SPARC architecture has provided continuous application binary compatibility from the first SPARC V7 implementation in 1987 through the Sun UltraSPARC Architecture implementations.

Among various implementations of SPARC, Sun's SuperSPARC and UltraSPARC-I were very popular, and were used as reference systems for SPEC CPU95 and CPU2000 benchmarks. The 296 MHz UltraSPARC-II is the reference system for the SPEC CPU2006 benchmark.

The SPARC architecture has been licensed to many companies who have developed and fabricated implementations, such as:

Afara Websystems Bipolar Integrated Technology (BIT) C-Cube Cypress Semiconductor Fujitsu and Fujitsu Microelectronics

HAL Computer Systems Hyundai LSI Logic Magnum Semiconductor Meiko Scientific Metaflow Technologies

Prisma Ross Technology Parsé Semiconductor Co. Scientific Atlanta Solbourne Computer Weitek

SPARC microprocessor implementations

This table contains specifications for certain SPARC processors: frequency (megahertz), architecture version, release year, number of threads (threads per core multiplied by the number of cores), fabrication process (nanometers), number of transistors (millions), die size (square millimetres), number of I/O pins, dissipated power (watts), voltage, and cache sizes—data, instruction, L2 and L3 (kibibytes).

Name (codename)	Model	Frequency (MHz)	Arch. version	Year	Total threads[note 1]	Process (nm)	Transistors (millions)	Die size (mm²)	IO pins	Power (W)	Voltage (V)	L1 Dcache (KiB)	L1 Icache (KiB)	L2 cache (KiB)	L3 cache (KiB)
SPARC	(various), including MB86900[note 2]	14.28–40	V7	1987–1992	1×1=1	800–1300	~0.1–1.8	--	160–256	--	--	0–128 (unified)		none	none
microSPARC I (Tsunami)	TI TMS390S10	40–50	V8	1992	1×1=1	800	0.8	225?	288	2.5	5	2	4	none	none
SuperSPARC I (Viking)	TI TMX390Z50 / Sun STP1020	33–60	V8	1992	1×1=1	800	3.1	--	293	14.3	5	16	20	0–2048	none
SPARClite	Fujitsu MB8683x	66–108	V8E	1992	1×1=1	--	--	--	144, 176	--	2.5/3.3–5.0 V, 2.5–3.3 V	1, 2, 8, 16	1, 2, 8, 16	none	none
hyperSPARC (Colorado 1)	Ross RT620A	40–90	V8	1993	1×1=1	500	1.5	--	--	--	5?	0	8	128–256	none
microSPARC II (Swift)	Fujitsu MB86904 / Sun STP1012	60–125	V8	1994	1×1=1	500	2.3	233	321	5	3.3	8	16	none	none
hyperSPARC (Colorado 2)	Ross RT620B	90–125	V8	1994	1×1=1	400	1.5	--	--	--	3.3	0	8	128–256	none
SuperSPARC II (Voyager)	Sun STP1021	75–90	V8	1994	1×1=1	800	3.1	299	--	16	--	16	20	1024–2048	none
hyperSPARC (Colorado 3)	Ross RT620C	125–166	V8	1995	1×1=1	350	1.5	--	--	--	3.3	0	8	512–1024	none
TurboSPARC	Fujitsu MB86907	160–180	V8	1996	1×1=1	350	3.0	132	416	7	3.5	16	16	512	none
UltraSPARC (Spitfire)	Sun STP1030	143–167	V9	1995	1×1=1	470	3.8	315	521	30[note 3]	3.3	16	16	512–1024	none
UltraSPARC (Hornet)	Sun STP1030	200	V9	1998	1×1=1	420	5.2	265	521	--	3.3	16	16	512–1024	none
hyperSPARC (Colorado 4)	Ross RT620D	180–200	V8	1996	1×1=1	350	1.7	--	--	--	3.3	16	16	512	none
SPARC64	Fujitsu (HAL)	101–118	V9	1995	1×1=1	400	--	Multichip	286	50	3.8	128	128	--	--
SPARC64 II	Fujitsu (HAL)	141–161	V9	1996	1×1=1	350	--	Multichip	286	64	3.3	128	128	--	--
SPARC64 III	Fujitsu (HAL) MBCS70301	250–330	V9	1998	1×1=1	240	17.6	240	--	--	2.5	64	64	8192	--
UltraSPARC IIs (Blackbird)	Sun STP1031	250–400	V9	1997	1×1=1	350	5.4	149	521	25[note 4]	2.5	16	16	1024 or 4096	none
UltraSPARC IIs (Sapphire-Black)	Sun STP1032 / STP1034	360–480	V9	1999	1×1=1	250	5.4	126	521	21[note 5]	1.9	16	16	1024–8192	none
UltraSPARC IIi (Sabre)	Sun SME1040	270–360	V9	1997	1×1=1	350	5.4	156	587	21	1.9	16	16	256–2048	none
UltraSPARC IIi (Sapphire-Red)	Sun SME1430	333–480	V9	1998	1×1=1	250	5.4	--	587	21[note 6]	1.9	16	16	2048	none
UltraSPARC IIe (Hummingbird)	Sun SME1701	400–500	V9	1999	1×1=1	180 Al	--	--	370	13[note 7]	1.5–1.7	16	16	256	none
UltraSPARC IIi (IIe+) (Phantom)	Sun SME1532	550–650	V9	2000	1×1=1	180 Cu	--	--	370	17.6	1.7	16	16	512	none
SPARC64 GP	Fujitsu SFCB81147	400–563	V9	2000	1×1=1	180	30.2	217	--	--	1.8	128	128	8192	--
SPARC64 GP	--	600–810	V9	--	1×1=1	150	30.2	--	--	--	1.5	128	128	8192	--
SPARC64 IV	Fujitsu MBCS80523	450–810	V9	2000	1×1=1	130	--	--	--	--	--	128	128	2048	--
UltraSPARC III (Cheetah)	Sun SME1050	600	JPS1	2001	1×1=1	180 Al	29	330	1368	53	1.6	64	32	8192	none
UltraSPARC III (Cheetah)	Sun SME1052	750–900	JPS1	2001	1×1=1	130 Al	29	--	1368	--	1.6	64	32	8192	none
UltraSPARC III Cu (Cheetah+)	Sun SME1056	1002–1200	JPS1	2001	1×1=1	130 Cu	29	232	1368	80[note 8]	1.6	64	32	8192	none
UltraSPARC IIIi (Jalapeño)	Sun SME1603	1064–1593	JPS1	2003	1×1=1	130	87.5	206	959	52	1.3	64	32	1024	none
SPARC64 V (Zeus)	Fujitsu	1100–1350	JPS1	2003	1×1=1	130	190	289	269	40	1.2	128	128	2048	--
SPARC64 V+ (Olympus-B)	Fujitsu	1650–2160	JPS1	2004	1×1=1	90	400	297	279	65	1	128	128	4096	--
UltraSPARC IV (Jaguar)	Sun SME1167	1050–1350	JPS2	2004	1×2=2	130	66	356	1368	108	1.35	64	32	16384	none
UltraSPARC IV+ (Panther)	Sun SME1167A	1500–2100	JPS2	2005	1×2=2	90	295	336	1368	90	1.1	64	64	2048	32768
UltraSPARC T1 (Niagara)	Sun SME1905	1000–1400	UA2005	2005	4×8=32	90	300	340	1933	72	1.3	8	16	3072	none
SPARC64 VI (Olympus-C)	Fujitsu	2150–2400	JPS2	2007	2×2=4	90	540	422	--	120–150	1.1	128×2	128×2	4096–6144	none
UltraSPARC T2 (Niagara 2)	Sun SME1908A	1000–1600	UA2007	2007	8×8=64	65	503	342	1831	95	1.1–1.5	8	16	4096	none
UltraSPARC T2 Plus (Victoria Falls)	Sun SME1910A	1200–1600	UA2007	2008	8×8=64	65	503	342	1831	-	-	8	16	4096	none
SPARC64 VII (Jupiter)[10]	Fujitsu	2400–2880	JPS2	2008	2×4=8	65	600	445	--	150	--	64×4	64×4	6144	none
UltraSPARC "RK" (Rock)[11]	Sun SME1832	2300	????	canceled[12]	2×16=32	65	?	396	2326	?	?	32	32	2048	?
SPARC64 VIIIfx (Venus)[13][14]	Fujitsu	2000	JPS2 / HPC-ACE	2009	1×8=8	45	760	513	1271	58	?	32×8	32×8	6144	none
SPARC T3 (Rainbow Falls)	Oracle/Sun	1650	UA2007	2010	8×16=128	40[15]	????	371	?	139	?	8	16	6144	none
Galaxy FT-1500	NUDT (China)	1800	UA2007?	201?	8×16=128	40	????	???	?	65	?	16×16	16×16	512×16	4096
SPARC64 VII+ (Jupiter-E or M3)[16][17]	Fujitsu	2667–3000	JPS2	2010	2×4=8	65	-	-	-	160	-	64×4	64×4	12288	none
LEON4	Aeroflex Gaisler	125–1500	V8E	2010	1×1=1	32	-	-	-	???	-	???	???	???	???
R1000	MCST (Russia)	1000	JPS2	2011	1×4=4	90	180	128	-	15	1, 1.8, 2.5	32	16	2048	none
SPARC T4 (Yosemite Falls)[18]	Oracle	2850–3000	OSA2011	2011	8×8=64	40	855	403	?	240	?	16×8	16×8	128×8	4096
SPARC64 IXfx[19][20][21]	Fujitsu	1850	JPS2 / HPC-ACE	2012	1x16=16	40	1870	484	1442	110	?	32×16	32×16	12288	none
SPARC64 X (Athena)[22]	Fujitsu	2800	OSA2011 / HPC-ACE	2012	2×16=32	28	2950	587.5	1500	270	?	64×16	64×16	24576	none
SPARC T5	Oracle	3600	OSA2011	2013	8×16=128	28	1500	478	?	?	?	16×16	16×16	128×16	8192
SPARC M5	Oracle	3600	OSA2011	2013	8×6=48	28	3900	?	?	?	?	16×6	16×6	128×6	49152
SPARC M6	Oracle	3600	OSA2011	2013	8×12=96	28	?	?	?	?	?	16×12	16×12	128×12	49152
SPARC64 X+ (Athena+)[23]	Fujitsu	3200–3700	OSA2011 / HPC-ACE	2014	2×16=32	28	2990	600	1500	392	?	64×16	64×16	24M	none
SPARC64 XIfx[24]	Fujitsu	2200	OSA2011 / HPC-ACE2	2015?	1×(32+2)=34	20	3750	?	1001	?	?	64×34	64×34	12M×2	none
SPARC M7[25][26]	Oracle	4133	OSA2015	2015	8×32=256	20	>10,000	?	?	?	?	16×32	16×32	256×24	65536
SPARC Sonoma[27][28]	Oracle	?	????	2016	8×8=64	20	????	?	?	?	?	16×8	16×8	256×2+256×4	8192
Name (codename)	Model	Frequency (MHz)	Arch. version	Year	Total threads[note 1]	Process (nm)	Transistors (millions)	Die size (mm²)	IO pins	Power (W)	Voltage (V)	L1 Dcache (KiB)	L1 Icache (KiB)	L2 cache (KiB)	L3 cache (KiB)

Notes:

1. Threads per core × number of cores
2. Various SPARC V7 implementations were produced by Fujitsu, LSI Logic, Weitek, Texas Instruments and Cypress. A SPARC V7 processor generally consisted of several discrete chips, usually comprising an integer unit (IU), a floating-point unit (FPU), a memory management unit (MMU) and cache memory.
3. @167 MHz
4. @250 MHz
5. @400 MHz
6. @440 MHz
7. max@500 MHz
8. @900 MHz

Operating system support

SPARC machines have generally used Sun's SunOS, Solaris, OpenSolaris or derived as Illumos, but other operating systems such as NeXTSTEP, RTEMS, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, and Linux have also been used.

In 1993, Intergraph announced a port of Windows NT to the SPARC architecture,^[29] but it was later cancelled.

In October 2015, Oracle announced a "Linux for SPARC reference platform".^[30]

Open source implementations

Three fully open source implementations of the SPARC architecture exist:

• LEON, a 32-bit, SPARC Version 8 implementation, designed especially for space use. Source code is written in VHDL, and licensed under the GPL.
• OpenSPARC T1, released in 2006, a 64-bit, 32-thread implementation conforming to the UltraSPARC Architecture 2005 and to SPARC Version 9 (Level 1). Source code is written in Verilog, and licensed under many licenses. Most OpenSPARC T1 source code is licensed under the GPL. Source based on existent open source projects will continue to be licensed under their current licenses. Binary programs are licensed under a binary software license agreement.
• S1, a 64-bit Wishbone compliant CPU core based on the OpenSPARC T1 design. It is a single UltraSPARC v9 core capable of 4 way SMT. Like the T1, the source code is licensed under the GPL.
• OpenSPARC T2, released in 2008, a 64-bit, 64-thread implementation conforming to the UltraSPARC Architecture 2007 and to SPARC Version 9 (Level 1). Source code is written in Verilog, and licensed under many licenses. Most OpenSPARC T2 source code is licensed under the GPL. Source based on existing open source projects will continue to be licensed under their current licenses. Binary programs are licensed under a binary Software License Agreement.

A fully open source simulator for the SPARC architecture also exists:

• RAMP Gold, a 32-bit, 64-thread SPARC Version 8 implementation, designed for FPGA-based architecture simulation. RAMP Gold is written in ~36,000 lines of SystemVerilog, and licensed under the BSD licenses.

Supercomputers

For HPC loads Fujitsu builds specialized SPARC64 fx processors with a new instruction extensions set called HPC-ACE (High Performance Computing – Arithmetic Computational Extensions).

Fujitsu's K computer ranked #1 in TOP500 – June 2011 and November 2011 lists. It combines 88,128 SPARC64 VIIIfx CPUs, each with eight cores, for a total of 705,024 cores—almost twice as many as any other system in the TOP500 at that time. The K Computer was more powerful than the next five systems on the list combined, and had the highest performance-to-power ratio of any other supercomputer system.^[31] It also ranked #6 in Green500 – June 2011 list, with a score of 824.56 MFLOPS/W.^[32] In the November 2012 release of TOP500, the K computer ranked #3, using by far the most power of the top three.^[33] It ranked #85 on the corresponding Green500 release.^[34] Newer HPC processors, IXfx and XIfx, were included in recent PRIMEHPC FX10 and FX100 servers.

Tianhe-2 (TOP500 #1 as of November 2014^[35]) has a number of nodes with Galaxy FT-1500 OpenSPARC-based processors developed in China. However, those processors did not contribute to the LINPACK score.^[36][37]

Latest Oracle SPARC SuperCluster model is M7 server.^[38]

See also

• ERC32 – based on SPARC V7 specification
• Ross Technology, Inc. – A SPARC microprocessor developer during the 1980s and 1990s
• Sparcle – modified SPARC with multiprocessing support used by the MIT Alewife project
• LEON – A space rated SPARC V8 processor.
• R1000 – A Russian quad-core microprocessor based on SPARC V9 specification
• Galaxy FT-1500 – A Chinese sixteen core OpenSPARC based processor

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External links

• SPARC International, Inc.
• Oracle SPARC Processor Documentation
• SPARC Technical Documents
• OpenSPARC Architecture specification
• Fujitsu SPARC64 V, VI, VII, VIIIfx, IXfx and X, X+ Extensions.
• Sun – UltraSPARC Processors Documentation, archive.org copy
• Sun – FOSS Open Hardware Documentation, archive.org copy
• OpenSPARC – An Open Source Processor used in Sun SPARC Servers, archive.org copy
• Oracle SPARC and Solaris Public Roadmap
• SPARC processor images and descriptions
• The Rough Guide to MBus Modules (SuperSPARC, hyperSPARC)
• SPARC at DMOZ