Zilog's classic Z80 chip is soon to be dead ... service that uses Skywater's open source 130nm process design kit. MPW chips cut down on the manufacturing costs by squeezing several die designs ...
Perhaps unsurprisingly, neither Z80-RIO nor PLZ were targeting the regular consumer market when they were brought to market in the late 1970s, but were part of Zilog’s focus on industrial ...
Although the 8080 CPU got a lot of glory, it was much harder to use than the Zilog Z80. The Z80 only required a single clock and power supply, so it was much easier to build a system, even on a ...