Re: Zilog stopping Z80 production

On 4/24/24 22:48, boB wrote:

On Wed, 24 Apr 2024 21:22:07 +0200, Lasse Langwadt <llc@fonz.dk>
wrote:
 

On 4/24/24 04:00, Don Y wrote:

On 4/23/2024 5:08 PM, Edward Rawde wrote:

It must be trivial to get a VHDL/Verilog model and make your own by now.

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The problem with all the early/simple/trivial processors is getting
the rest of the system to run as fast as the core can.  E.g., running
a core at ~200MHz and expecting the same bus timing means < 5ns memory.
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(for a Z80, that would be ~10ns as the bus timing is inherently slower)
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how much memory can it address?
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 64K
16 bits worth.

so in something like and FPGA in is with range of internal ram and memory speed is not really an issue