Embedded Systems Design, 2nd Edition

60 Embedded systems design

saving 138 registers to memory greatly increases the context

switch and hence the response time. A good example of this

approach is the Sun SPARC processor.

Sun SPARC RISC processor

The SPARC (scalable processor architecture) processor is a

32 bit RISC architecture developed by Sun Microsystems for their

workstations but manufactured by a number of manufacturers

such as LSI, Cypress, Fujitsu, Philips and Texas Instruments.

The basic architecture follows the Berkeley model and uses

register windowing to improve context switching and parameter

passing. The initial designs were based on a discrete solution with

separate floating ...