APPENDIX B
Advance Information
16-BIT MICROPROCESSING UNIT
Advances in semiconductor technology have provided the capability to place on a single silicon chip a microprocessor at least an order of magnitude higher in performance and circuit complexity than has been previously available. The MC68000 is the first of a family of such VLSI microprocessors from Motorola. It combines state-of-the-art technology and advanced circuit design techniques with computer sciences to achieve an architecturally advanced 16-bit microprocessor.
The resources available to the MC68000 user consist of the following
- • 32-Bit Data and Address Registers
- • 16 Megabyte Direct Addressing Range
- • 56 Powerful Instruction Types
- • Operations on Five Main Data Types ...
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