Vladimir Pantelic wrote: > The data sheet says 8bit! There is a DSP that does the MP3 decoding and > a DMA controller, so most likely the z80 does little besides reading the > FAT filesystem and setting up the DMA to pipe data from Flash to the DSP.
Actually the Z80 is an 8-bit CPU with some 16-bit extensions. For example it can combine six 8-bit registers into three 16-bit registers, and do some simple arithmetic on them (add/sub). This may not sound impressive, but it is way easier to program than a pure 8-bit CPU like the 6502/6510 which doesn't know of 16-bit at all.
