Motorola MC68012

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MC68012
Family: Motorola M68000 Family
Architecture: 32-bit
Manufacturer: Motorola
Year Introduced: 1982
Address bus: 31-bit
Data bus: 16-bit
Number of registers: 15 general 32-bit registers (8 data, 7 address)
Clock Speed: 8 MHz - 12.5 MHz (initial release)


The Motorola MC68012 was a variant of the second member of the Motorola M68000 Family of VLSI microprocessors, the Motorola MC68010. Other than an extended address bus, and a pin to help with multi-processor systems, it was identical to the MC68010.

To provide the extra pins needed, the MC68012 was only available in a Pin Grid Array package.