1936 Oakcliff Dr. Grand Rapids, MI 49525 USA 616-831-0765  Nova Sector Advantages  Component Quality  Performance Level  Price/Performance Ratio  Service Commitment  The Best OS  Unleash Creativity  3-D Modelling and Animation  Web Development  Non-linear Editing and Compositing  Back-end Information Server  Multimedia Design  Get the Right System  Let our System Qualifier help you decide which system is best suited to your needs.

Alpha Series - Nitro Series - Bravo Series Contact Nova - Dealers  Nova Sector Processing Power Our systems use the Motorola 68060 and PowerPC 604e processor chips, the two most advanced microprocessors ever made available for Amiga-compatible workstations. These processors provide the massive multimedia display and creative productivity capabilities of Nova Sector's Workstations.   The Motorola 68060 is a superscalar, CISC/RISC hybrid processor, well-suited to embedded and mainstream computing applications. A 32-bit processor, the 68060 is up to 8 times faster than its predecessor, the 68040. The 68060 offers peak baseline processing speeds of greater than 100 million instructions per second.  Completely User-Code Compatible with the MC68040  Superscalar Implementation of M68000 Architecture  Branch Cache Reduces Branches to Zero Cycles  Executes Three Instructions per Clock  Dual 8K On-Chip Caches  Bus Snooping  Independent Instruction and Data Paged MMUs (MC68060 and MC68LC060 Only)  Full 32-Bit Nonmultiplexed Address an Data Bus  The PowerPC 604TM and PowerPC 604eTM microprocessors are 32-bit RISC implementations of the PowerPC architecture designed for use in high performance desktop, workstation, and symmetric multiprocessing computer systems. The PowerPC 604 and PowerPC 604e are software and bus compatible with the PowerPC 601, PowerPC 603, and PowerPC 603e microprocessors. The PowerPC 604 features separate 16-Kbyte, physically addressed instruction and data caches, while the 604e offers 32-Kbyte instruction and data caches.    180-233 MHz 250-350 MHz CPU Speed - Internal 180 MHz 200 MHz 225 MHz 233 MHz 250 MHz 300 MHz 350 MHz CPU Bus Dividers x2, x2.5, x3, x3.5, x4 x3, x3.5, x4, x4.5,  x5, x5.5, x6, x6.5, x7 Bus Interface 64 bits 64 bits Instructions   per Clock 4 4 L1 Cache 32 Kbyte inst 32 Kbyte data 32 Kbyte inst 32 Kbyte data Typical/Maximum  Power Dissipation 13.5W/14.3W @ 180 MHz 6.0W/10.6W @ 200 MHz Die Size 148 sq mm 47 sq mm Package 255 CBGA 255 CBGA Process 0.35 micron 4LM 0.25 micron 4LM Voltage 3.3 V i/o 2.5 V int 3.3 V i/o 1.8 V int SPECint95 (est.) 9.4 @ 200 MHz 14.6 @ 350 MHz SPECfp95 (est.) 8.7 @ 200 MHz 9.0 @ 350 MHz Other Performance 418 MIPS  @ 233 MHz 629 MIPS  @ 350 MHz Execution Units Integer (3) Float Branch Load/Store System Integer (3) Float Branch Load/Store System