Certified Products

SPARC Certified Systems by Vendor

• Fujitsu
• Sun Microsystems, Inc.
• Tadpole
• Toshiba Corporation

SPARC Architectures Certified by Vendor

• European Space & Technology Centre
• Gailser Research
• Fujitsu
• Sun Microsystems, Inc.

SPARC Processors

• Linux on SPARC
• SPARC Processors
• SPARC Operating Systems

SPARC Compliant Architecture

SPARC (Scalable Processor Architecture) is the industry's only openly defined and evolved RISC architecture. Unlike other RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Computer) designs, SPARC specifies not a hardware implementation ("chip"), but an open, standard architecture belonging to the community of SPARC vendors and users. The SPARC specification is defined by the SPARC Architecture Committee, a technical arm of the computer-maker consortium, SPARC International.

There are two versions of the SPARC Architecture. Version 8 specifies the 32-bit implementation; Version 9 the 64-bit.

Copies of the SPARC V8 and V9 specifications are available from SPARC Resources, the SPARC International bookstore.

For more information about SPARC Architectures, please email sparchelp@sparc.org.

European Space & Technology Centre

• Next Generation SPARC64 V Processors - The Inside Story
• SPARC64(TM) V Processor For UNIX Server