Acctually, where I worked a few years back, some of the companies other divisions were doing new designs with Z80 and other 'old' devices in them. BUT, they did not buy those chips. Zilog's programmable gate arrays have downloads for them to make them operated like all the old popular chips. Plus the company could blow the chips down into the gate arrays and have tons of left over room for the rest of their circuit design. It's a different form-factory but coding them is the same.
And if you want to daisy-chain them you can down load several into the same Zilog device. In fact the engineer and I at the place did some back of the napkin calculations and figure we might be able to fit as many as 100 Z80's in one big Zilog gate array. But that did not account for any useful interconnection logic.
-Dale
At 08:44 PM 2003_08_06, you wrote:
On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Gregg C Levine wrote:
> Hello again from Gregg C Levine > David, thank you for summing up the whole business in a nutshell. > > I wonder what actually happened to all of that hardware. <G> Speaking > of which, I think someone is still avidly making Z8K devices, if only > to support the few systems that used them, they were selected for the > MIL-STD-1750 processor standard awhile back. http://www.google.com/search?q=z8000%20site%3Azilog.com&sourceid=mozilla-search&start=0&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
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