Why it matters: Zilog is retiring the Z80 after 48 years on the market. Originally developed as a project stemming from the Intel 8080, it eventually rose to become one of the most popular and widely ...

The Z80, 180, and 380 processor families represent three generations of upward-compatible µPs. The Z80 includes 150 instructions, many of which have numerous variants for operand location and ...

So, I'm curious about the Intel aspect of this. . . The 8-bit Z80 microprocessor was designed in 1974 by Federico Faggin as a binary-compatible, improved version of the Intel 8080 with a higher clock ...

The Zilog Z80 microprocessor is an 8-bit chip that was first released in the 1970s and used in a variety of classic computers and game consoles including the Sinclair ZX Spectrum, TRS-80, and Sega ...

After a venerable 48-year tenure, Zilog is bidding farewell to the Z80. Initially an offshoot from the Intel 8080 project, this chip ascended to fame as one of the most cherished and extensively ...

ZiLOG, Inc., the creator of the Z80 microprocessor, today announced availability of its enhanced Z8 Encore! Flash microcontroller series with 16KB to 64KB of Flash memory. The new series features an ...

The Zilog Z80 microprocessor is an 8-bit chip that was first released in the 1970s and used in a variety of classic computers and game consoles including the Sinclair ZX Spectrum, TRS-80, and Sega ...

[Plasmode] has created several Z80-compatible board designs, at least four of them using the oddball Z280. The Z280 was a special variant of a Z80 that could bootstrap itself with no external PROM, ...

When Microsoft first launched Windows 8 in 2012, it also launched the Microsoft Surface with Windows RT. Many people believed at the time it was the company's first venture into making PC hardware. Oh ...

Cowgol on Z80 running CP/M ties together everything needed to provide a Cowgol development environment (including C and assembler) on a Z80 running the CP/M operating system, making it easier to get ...

In the beginning, Texas Instruments found a solid formula to produce a graphing calculator. The TI-81, the first of Texas Instrument's graphing calculators, was released in 1990, and had a 2MHz ...

Isn't the entire point of breadboarding to see how a circuit design works in practice before putting in the effort to create a (potentially flawed) PCB around it? Click to expand... True, but usually ...