Identifying Motorola 68000 series CPUs

Identifying Motorola 68000 series CPUs

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First Position - Status

MC
  • Fully certified and vetted
XC
  • Engineering sample
  • Pilot production
  • It may have bugs, according to some reports, that the software emulation for floating point in the 680LC40 does not work properly under XC status.

Second Position - Type of CPU

68
  • Entire core of features
  • Memory Management Unit (MMU)
  • Floating Point Unit (FPU)
68EC
  • Primarily for embedded systems
  • Excluding MMU and FPU
  • MMU replaced by two access control units (ADU)
68LC
  • MMU
  • No FPU
  • It could run floating point instructions via software emulation, but slower than the 68040 and depends on the app.

Third Position - Model

000 - 68000​
020 - 68020​
030 - 68030​
040 - 68040​
060 - 68060​


Fourth Position - Form Factor

RC - Ceramic PGA (Au/Pb finish)​
RP - Plastic PGA​
FE - Quad Flat Package​
FG - Thin Quad Flat Package​


Fifth Position - Clock Frequency

16 - 16MHz​
25 - 25MHz​
33 - 33MHz​
and so on...


Sixth Position - Revision

B - First revision​
C - Second revision​
D - Third revision (?)​
E - Fourth revision (?)​
V - I need to study that to make sure I can explain that one better for the next version of this guide. :)

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