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The Zilog Z80 is an 8-bit microprocessor designed by Zilog that played an important role in the evolution of early computing. Software-compatible with the Intel 8080, it offered a compelling alternative due to its lower cost and increased performance. The Z80 boasted fourteen registers compared to the 8080's seven, … See more
Early history
At Fairchild Semiconductor, and later at Intel, physicist and engineer Federico Faggin had been working on fundamental transistor See moreDesktop computers
During the late 1970s and early 1980s, the Z80 was used in a great number of fairly anonymous business-oriented machines with the See moreDatasheets and manuals
• Z80 Datasheet (NMOS); Zilog; 10 pages; 1978.
• Z80 Data Book (NMOS); Zilog; 131 pages; 1978. See moreProgramming model and register set
The programming model and register set of the Z80 are fairly conventional, ultimately based on … See moreSecond sources
Mostek, which produced the first Z80 for Zilog, offered it as second-source as MK3880. SGS … See moreWikipedia text under CC-BY-SA license Sharp Brings Latest Plasmacluster Ion Products to Malaysia
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