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the Atari History Site by: Markus Kirschbaum

Size:         10.5" x 12" x 3.5"
Controls:     Power on/off
Display:      Resolution up to 1600 x 600 pixels (50 Hz/interlace)
              32-bit "Extended True Color" display with 16,777,216
              colors simultaneously (additional 8 bits of supplimental
              graphics data support possible)
              Multiple-resolution, multiple-color depth objects
              (monochrome, 2-bit, 4-bit, 8-bit, 16-bit, 24-bit) can be
              used simultaneously
Ports:        Cartridge slot/expansion port (64 bits)
              RF video output
              Video edge connector (video/audio output)
              (supports NTSC and PAL; provides S-Video, Composite, RGB
              outputs, accessible by optional add-on connector)
              Four controller ports
              Digital Signal Processor port (includes high-speed
              synchronous serial input/output)
Controllers:  Eight-directional joypad
              Size 5" x 4.5" x 1.5", cord 7 feet
              Six fire buttons (A, B, C, D, E, F)
              Pause and Option buttons
              12-key keypad (accepts game-specific overlays)

The Jaguar 2 has seven 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 68EC020 used as a coprocessor.
Tom and Jerry are built using an 0.3 micron silicon process.  With
proper programming, all seven processors can run in parallel.

- "Tom"
  - 1,250,000 transistors, 292 pins
  - Graphics Processing Unit (processor #1)
     - 64-bit RISC architecture (64/128 register processor)
     - 64 registers of 128 bits wide (shadow-buffering)
     - Has access to all 2 x 64 bits of the system bus
     - Can read 128 bits of data in one instruction
     - Rated at 127.902 MIPS (million instructions per second)
     - Runs at 63.951 MHz
     - 2 x 32K bytes of zero wait-state internal SRAM (matrix)
     - Performs a wide range of high-speed graphic effects
     - Programmable
   - Object processor (processor #2)
     - 64-bit RISC architecture
     - Programmable processor that can act as a variety of different
       video architectures, such as a sprite engine, a pixel-mapped
       display, a character-mapped system, and others.
   - Blitter (processor #3)
     - 64 bits read and write at the same time! (multibuffering!)
     - 8K read buffer (fifo)
     - 8K write buffer (lifo)
     - Performs high-speed logical operations
     - Hardware support for Z-buffering and Gouraud shading
   - Texture Mapping Engine (processor #4)
     - 64-bit RISC
     - 64 bits
     - Programmable risc processor
     - 256K "texture-work-ram" of zero wait-state internal CACHE
     - capable of doing about 900000 texture-mapped polyons,
       without textures there can do 2500000 polyons.
     - realtime Gouraud and Phong shading
   - J/MPEG "COMBI" Chip (processor #5)
     - 64 bits
     - not programmable!
     - 8K own data rom (with sinus) table
     - 128K CACHE (fifo)
     - realtime J/MPEG decompression via CACHE (fifo)
   - DRAM memory controller
     - 4 x 64 bits
     - Accesses the DRAM directly

- "Jerry"
   - 900,000 transistors, 196 pins
   - Digital Signal Processor (processor #6)
     - 32 bits (32-bit registers)
     - Rated at 53,3 MIPS (million instructions per second)
     - Runs at 53.3 MHz
     - Same RISC core as the Graphics Processing Unit
     - Not limited to sound generation
     - 96K bytes of zero wait-state internal SRAM
     - CD-quality sound (16-bit stereo 50KHz)
     - Number of sound channels limited by software (minimum 16!!)
     - Two DACs (stereo) convert digital data to analog sound
       signals
     - Full stereo capabilities
     - Wavetable synthesis, FM synthesis, FM Sample synthesis, and AM
       synthesis
     - A clock control block, incorporating timers, and a UART

- Motorola 68EC020 (processor #7)
     - Runs at 26.590MHz
     - perfect 68000 emulation
     - General purpose control processor

Communication is performed with a high speed 64-bit data bus, rated
at 2400 megabits/second.  The 68000 is only able to access 16 bits
of this bus at a time.

The Jaguar 2 contains eight megabytes (64 megabits) of fast
page-mode DRAM, in eight chips with 1024 K each.