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360/440MHz CPU; 0.25 to 2 MB L2 cache; UPA64S, 66MHz PCI Interfaces
UltraSPARC IIi CPU Module
September 2001
Sun Microsystems, Inc
SME5431PCI-360
SME5434PCI-440
Preliminary
Component Overview
The UltraSPARC IIi 360 MHz CPU module and the UltraSPARC IIi 440 MHz CPU module consist of the fol-
lowing components.
UltraSPARC-IIi Processor in a ceramic LGA package
One cache tag SRAM and two cache data SRAMs
Clock generator, divider, and buffer ICs
PCI/JTAG/temperature sense interface connector
Memory/UPA64S interface connector
UltraSPARC-IIi CPU
The UltraSPARC-IIi CPU is a high-performance, highly-integrated, superscalar processor implementing the
SPARC V9 64-bit RISC architecture. This CPU can sustain the execution of up to four instructions per cycle
even in the presence of conditional branches and cache misses. It supports a 44-bit virtual address space and
a 41-bit physical address space. The instruction set also includes the VIS Instruction Set that accommodates
the functions:
most common operations related to two-dimensional image processing
three-dimensional graphics
video compression and decompression and other pixel-based algorithms
support for high-bandwidth bcopy through block-load and block-store instructions
The SME1430LGA CPU is contained in a 587-pin 1.27 mm-pitch ceramic LGA package of dimensions 37.5 mm
by 37.5 mm. This package is the same as that used for the SME1040LGA CPU.
The PCI interface supports the PCI 2.1 specication with a 66-MHz clock rate or a 33-MHz rate across a
PCI bridge, for example the Advanced PCI Bridge (APB), part number SME2411BGA-66. PCI DMA trans-
fers become cache coherent after they are presented to the CPU.
External (L2) Cache
The L2 cache is connected to the L2-cache data bus and is implemented in three synchronous SRAM ICs.
The CPU-SRAM interface runs at half of the CPU pipeline frequency (for example, 220 MHz for the 440 MHz
CPU). SRAM signals operate at 1.9-V, pseudo-HSTL levels. The SRAM clock is a differential, pseudo HSTL
signal.
For the 440 MHz UltraSPARC IIi CPU Modules, the external-cache SRAM interfaces operate in 2–2, regis-
ter-latch mode, which means that it takes two processor clocks to send the address and access the SRAM
array, and two clocks to return the data. The 2–2 mode has a four cycle pin-to-pin latency and provides the
highest performance SRAM solution at a given frequency.
L2-Cache SRAM Detail
Module Part No.
Data Cache Size
One Cache Tag SRAM
Two Cache Data SRAMs [1]
1. Congured on a 64-bit data + 8-bit parity interface
SME5431PCI-360
0.25 megabyte
64K x 18 bit
32K x 36 bit
SME5434PCI-440
2.0 megabyte
256K x 18 bit
256K x 36 bit