For example, BASIC on the early microcontrollers Intel 8052 ; BASIC and FORTH on the Zilog Z8 as well as some modern devices.

* Zilog Z8 ( 1978 Harvard architecture microcontroller )

* Zilog Z8 Encore!

* Zilog Z8 Encore!

Faggin conceived the Z8 in 1974, soon after he founded Zilog.

* Zilog Z8, a microprocessor

After six months of trying to get the modem working with the PIC, Heatherington gave up and demanded they use the 8 MHz Zilog Z8 instead, a US $ 10 part.

Zilog Z8 processor

Zilog Z8 ( Super-8 family ).

The Zilog Z8 is a microcontroller architecture, originally introduced in 1979, which today also includes the eZ8 Encore !, eZ8 Encore!

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In recent decades Zilog has refocused on the ever-growing market for embedded systems ( for which the original Z80 and the Z180 were designed ) and the most recent Z80-compatible microcontroller family, the fully pipelined 24-bit eZ80 with a linear 16 MB address range, has been successfully introduced alongside the simpler Z180 and Z80 products.

2007 was the last year Zilog introduced any new 8-bit microcontroller products.

On February 19, 2009, Zilog announced that it had sold off their 8-bit Crimzon Universal Remote Control infrared microcontroller product line, as well as their ARM9 32-bit microcontrollers, including the Zatara security microcontrollers and 15 patents, to Maxim Integrated Products.

Zilog still sells 8-bit microcontroller markets, but has not introduced a new 8-bit microcontroller semiconductor since 2007.

After the Z80 Zilog introduced the 16-bit Z8000 and 32-bit Z80000 processors, but these were not particularly successful, and the company refocused on the microcontroller market, producing both basic CPUs and application-specific integrated circuits / standard products ( ASICs / ASSPs ) built around a CPU core.

Zilog attempted to enter the 32-bit microcontroller market in February 2006 with the demonstration of ARM9-based Point-Of-Sale ( POS ) microcontroller product line.

* Zilog Z16F, ZNEO, 16-bit microcontroller ( 2006 )

Other well known 8-bit microprocessors that emerged during these years were Motorola 6800 ( 1974 ), General Instrument PIC16X ( 1975 ), MOS Technology 6502 ( 1975 ), Zilog Z80 ( 1976 ), and Motorola 6809 ( 1978 ).

* Zilog Z8000 ( ca 1978 )

In 1978 the Smaky switched to using the 8-bit Zilog Z80 processor.

FORTH, Inc .' s microFORTH was developed for the Intel 8080, Motorola 6800, and Zilog Z80 microprocessors starting in 1976.

It was an attempt to draw attention from the less-delayed 16 and 32-bit processors of other manufacturers ( such as Motorola, Zilog, and National Semiconductor ) and at the same time to counter the threat from the Zilog Z80 ( designed by former Intel employees ), which became very successful.

The Neo Geo was marketed as 24-bit, though it was technically a parallel processing 32-bit system with 24-bit addressing and a 16-bit data bus with an 8-bit Zilog Z80 as coprocessor.

Numerous versions included Apple II, TI 99 / 4a, DEC PDP-11, Zilog Z80 and MOS 6502 based machines, Motorola 68000 and the IBM PC ( Version II on the PC was restricted to one 64K code segment and one 64K stack / heap data segment ; Version IV removed the code segment limit but cost a lot more ).

CP / M would also run on systems based on the Zilog Z80 processor since the Z80 was compatible with 8080 code.

The ports were driven by the Zilog SCC which could serve as either a standard UART or handle the much more complicated HDLC protocol which was a packet oriented protocol which incorporated addressing, bit-stuffing, and packet checksumming in hardware.

Zilog was incorporated in California in 1974 by Federico Faggin, who left Intel after working on the 4004 and then the 8080 microprocessors.

Zilog went public in 1991, but was acquired in 1998 by Texas Pacific Group.

StarDivision developed the first version of StarWriter for the Zilog Z80 home-computer system, the Amstrad CPC ( marketed by Schneider in Germany ) under CP / M, and later for the Commodore 64 under Microsoft BASIC, which was later ported to the 8086-based Amstrad PC-1512, running under MS-DOS 3. 2.

The initial port of Xenix was to the Zilog Z8000 series and subsequently to the Intel 8086 / 8088 architecture ported by The Santa Cruz Operation.

Microsoft Xenix originally ran on the PDP-11 ; the first port was for the Zilog Z8001 16-bit processor.

The downside of the system was that it required much more advanced decoders, typically featuring Zilog Z80 or Motorola 6809 processors with RGB and / or RF output.

The result was the Commodore PET ( RAM, discrete logic graphics ), launched in 1977 – one of three historic home / personal computers to appear that year, the two others being the Apple II ( also 6502-based ) and the TRS-80 ( with a Zilog Z80 ).

The downside was that it required much more advanced decoders, typically featuring Zilog Z80 or Motorola 6809 processors.

Another feature the Astrocade did not include was the ability to process arrays with any reasonable speed, so the UV-1 included the Zilog supplied FPU for added performance.

It was powered by a Zilog Z80 running at 2. 106 MHz with 4 to 48 kilobytes of RAM, giving it performance parity with the TRS-80.

The Franklin REX 5, ( also known as the “ Rex-Pro ”, as the “ Rex 5000 ”, and with cosmetic variation as the “ Rex 5001 ”) was one of the Rex line of Personal Digital Assistants, each a PCMCIA PC card and thus the size of a credit card, built around a Toshiba microprocessor emulating a Zilog Z80.

In some early microprocessor designs, memory management was performed by a separate integrated circuit such as the VLSI VI475 or the Motorola 68851 used with the Motorola 68020 CPU in the Macintosh II or the Z8015 used with the Zilog Z80 family of processors.

The computer was based on the Zilog Z80 CPU, and featured:

) Set in an aluminum case, it weighed 29 pounds ( 13 kilograms ) and was equipped with a Zilog Z80 microprocessor, 64 kilobytes of RAM, and two 5¼-inch double-density floppy-disk drives.

A Zilog Z8000 port of Coherent was also used by the canceled Commodore 900 system.

The first Sun workstations ( then based on the Motorola 68010 ) ran a V7 port by UniSoft ; the first version of Xenix for the Intel 8086 was derived from V7 ; and Onyx Systems soon produced a Zilog Z8000 computer running V7.