Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!cprice From: cprice@mips.com (Charlie Price) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mips Subject: Re: r3000 and r4000 Arch books for public eyes yet? Message-ID: <2239@spim.mips.COM> Date: 12 Apr 91 20:02:45 GMT References: <2291@cluster.cs.su.oz.au> <399@comperex.oz> <00947042.1469AF40@uno.edu> Sender: news@mips.COM Organization: MIPS Computer Systems, Inc Lines: 102 Nntp-Posting-Host: lloyd.mips.com In article <00947042.1469AF40@uno.edu> des@uno.edu (Dan Smith) writes: >In article <399@comperex.oz>, burn@comperex.oz (Burn Alting) writes: >> >>MIPS used to and still does distribute the "MIPS R2000/R3000 RISC Architecture >>Manual" with a RISC/os Manual Set (Programmers Documentation Set) as opposed >>to the system itself. > >Sorry, I should have made myself a bit more explicit. I've read the >R2000 book and found it to be a very good source of how the >instruction set worked. And I appreciate finding out that they have a >new version of the book out. What I was really asking was "Does there >exist a 'Users Guide' similar to the Motorola series books for the >68K." These books are the 'bibles' for anyone interested in designing >boards and writing operating systems for these chips. I.E. Is MIPS >making the software AND hardware interface specs available. The R2000 >book is good for the system side of design but the hardware end would >be interesting too. One difference here is that Motorola sells chips and MIPS doesn't. The people who sell the chips are very interested in helping people be successful with them, however, and should be able to get you interface specs and such. Our CMOS partners are, in alphabetical order: Integrated Device Technology 3226 Scott Blvd. P.O. Box 58015 Santa Clara, CA 95052-8015 Tel: (408) 727-6116 LSI Logic Corporation 1551 McCarthy Blvd. Milpitas, CA 95035 Tel: (408) 433-8000 Attn: MIPS Division NEC Electonics 401 Ellis St P.O. Box 7241 Mountain View, CA 95035 Tel: (415) 960-6000 Attn: Microprocessor Marketing NEC Corporation NEC Building 7-1, Shiva 5-chome, Minatoku Tokyo 108-01, Japan Tel: (03)-3454-1111 NEC Electronics Europe Oberrather Str.4 4000 Dusseldorf 30, West Germany Tel: (0211)-650301 Performance Semiconductor Corp. 610 E. Weddell Dr. Sunnyvale, CA 94089 Tel: (408) 734-9000 Attn: Microprocessor Marketing Siemens Components, Inc. 2191 Laurelwood Rd. Santa Clara, CA 95054 Tel: (408) 980-4506 Attn: Integrated Circuit Division Siemens AG Semidonductor Division Marketing Microprocessor Products Balanstrasse 73 POB 801709 D-8000 Munich 80 Tel: (-89) 4144-0 Our two ECL (R6000) partners are NEC and Sony. You may have heard about BIT and be wondering where they come into this. MIPS currently gets R6000 parts from Bipolar Integrated Technology (BIT), but BIT is not a semiconductor partner allowed to sell to the open market, they are a foundry and only allowed to supply chips to MIPS. One supposes that you could eventually buy an R6000 chipset from one of the ECL partners. NEC (addresses above in the CMOS group) Sony Corporation 10833 Valley View St. Cypress, CA 90630-0016 Component Products Group (714) 229-4270 Sony Corporation 4-10-18, Takanawa Minato-ku, Tokyo, 108 Japan Products Marketing Dept III Semiconductor Div. Component Marketing Group Tel: (03) 3448-3425 -- Charlie Price cprice@mips.mips.com (408) 720-1700 MIPS Computer Systems / 928 Arques Ave. MS 1-03 / Sunnyvale, CA 94086-23650