Lot of 38 - ZILOG - Z80CPU - CDIP 8-BIT CPU, Gold Top & Leads, 40 Pin CDIP, New

The Zilog Z80 is a software-compatible extension and enhancement of the Intel 8080 and, like it, was mainly aimed at embedded systems. Although used in that role, the Z80 also became one of the most widely used CPUs in desktop computers and home computers from the 1970s to the mid-1980s.It was also common in military applications, musical equipment such as synthesizers (like the Roland Jupiter-8), and coin-operated arcade games of the late 1970s and early 1980s, including Pac-Man.

- Z80 is backward compatible with i8080, can run 8080 binary code without any change.
- Z80 had some hardware improvements, reducing the total number of chips needed to build a computer.
- Z80 has different mnemonic names for its assembly language (for the same binary instruction codes).
- Z80 has more instructions than i8080
- Z80 was the precursor of 8086, 80186, 286, 386, 486, etc.

Dual In-Line 40-Pin Side-Brazed Ceramic DIP

Parallel I/O Port

Gold Top / Gold Pins

1978 Vintage - Rare –Difficult to Find New Gold Pin CPU

Genuine ZILOG - Not a Chinese Copy - New Old Stock

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