GIM SBA | |
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Developer | General Instrument |
Manufacturer | General Instrument |
Type | microcontrollers |
Production | November, 1977 |
Architecture | 1-bit |
ISA | SBA |
Word size | 1-bit "-bit" is not declared as a valid unit of measurement for this property.
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Technology | nMOS |
Clock | 10 kHz-800 kHz |
Package | DIP40 |
The GI SBA (Sequential Boolean Analyzer) was a family of 1-bit microcontrollers developed by General Instrument's Microelectronics division. These microcontrollers served as cheap programmable logic controllers, replacing old relay system.
Members
Part | RAM | ROM | I/O Ports | Notes |
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SBA | 120x1 bits | 1024x8 bits | 31 | |
SBA-1 | 120x1 bits | 31 | external storage | |
SBA-2 | 120x1 bits | 2048x8 bits | 31 | ?ever released? |
Architecture
The SBA family had a large number (over 30) of I/O ports that could all be individually accessed programatically. Additionally, it had a relatively complex scheme of data storage. In total there were 120 words (1-bit each). This was broken down into 4 pages of 30 addresses each. The program had to choose which page it was working with currently and once that was done, any address selection was done on that page.
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ISA
- Main article: SBA ISA
The SBA family had 8-bit instructions consisting of instructions with immediate and without immediate values. In total there were 24 instructions used for arithmetic, I/O, and page switching.
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designer | General Instrument + |
full page name | general instrument/sba + |
instance of | microcontroller family + |
instruction set architecture | SBA + |
main designer | General Instrument + |
manufacturer | General Instrument + |
name | GIM SBA + |
package | DIP40 + |
technology | nMOS + |