The Jaguar has five processors, which are contained
in three chips. Two of the chips are proprietary designs, nicknamed
"Tom" and "Jerry". The third chip is a standard Motorola 68000 used
as a coprocessor. Tom and Jerry are built using an 0.5 micron
silicon process. With proper programming, all five processors can
run in parallel.
CPU: Tom - Graphics (32 bit RISC, 26.591 MHz, 26.591 MIPS), Object
(64 bit RISC), and Blitter (64 bit RISC) processing units
PPU: Motorolla 16 bit 68000 (13.295 MHz)
APU: Jerry - Digital Signal (32 bit RISC, 26.6 MHz, 26.6 MIPS)
processing unit
Total Memory: 16 mbits
Colors displayed: 16.8 million
Colors available: 24 bit
Resolution: Varies: RF, S-Video, Composite
Rendering Speed (millions pixels/sec): >850 |