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Zilog, Inc. is an American manufacturer of microprocessors, microcontrollers, and application-specific embedded system-on-chip (SoC) products. The company was founded in 1974 by Federico Faggin and Ralph Ungermann , who were soon joined by Masatoshi Shima .
The Zilog Z80 is an 8-bit microprocessor designed by Zilog that played an important role in the evolution of early computing. Launched in 1976, it was designed to be software-compatible with the Intel 8080 , offering a compelling alternative due to its better integration and increased performance.
Zilog subsequently announced an agreement to manufacture the WE32100 chipset for a five year period, being the first alternative source of these products. [51] There was a Z8000 version of the Xenix Operating System. [52] In 1982, Digital Research and Zilog announced an agreement to make CP/M available for the Z8000. [53]
The Zilog Z80 was the first microprocessor created by Zilog, the first company entirely dedicated to microprocessors. It was started by Federico Faggin and Ralph Ungermann in November 1974. Faggin was Zilog's president and CEO until the end of 1980 and he conceived and designed the Z80 CPU and
Zilog Z8 processor Zilog Z8 (Super-8 family) A Zilog Z8-02 packaged in a QUIP. The Zilog Z8 is a microcontroller architecture, originally introduced by Zilog in 1979. Today the line also includes the Z8 Encore!, eZ8 Encore!, [note 1] eZ8 Encore! XP, and eZ8 Encore! MC families.
The Zilog Z800 was a 16-bit microprocessor designed by Zilog and meant to be released in 1985. It was instruction compatible with their existing Z80, and differed primarily in having on-chip cache and a memory management unit (MMU) to provide a 16 MB address range. It also added a huge number of new more orthogonal instructions and addressing ...
1974. Intel release the Intel 8080, an 8-bit microprocessor, designed by Federico Faggin and Masatoshi Shima. 1975. MOS Technology release the 8-bit MOS Technology 6502, the first integrated processor to have an affordable price of $25 when the 6800 rival was $175. 1976. Zilog introduce the 8-bit Zilog Z80, designed by Federico Faggin and ...
The MITS Altair 8800 effectively created a new industry of microcomputers and computer kits, with many others following, such as a wave of small business computers in the late 1970s based on the Intel 8080, Zilog Z80 and Intel 8085 microprocessor chips.