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Open source project seeks to clone classic Z80 chip • The Register (www.theregister.com)
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[–] IcePee@lemmy.beru.co 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Interesting, I see possible mutual assistance between this project and MisterFPGA, MARS and other FPGA projects. I guess the real difficulty is getting a fab set up to manufacture the chips. Once again, maybe they can take a page out of another project's book like armsid or, more aptly the Apollo line of computer upgrades and cycle accurately emulate the functionality in some other freely available silicon.

[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 3 points 6 months ago

accurately emulate the functionality in some other freely available silicon

Get a cheap PIC or AVR microcontroller, put it on a DIP-sized carrier board, and write a program to simulate everything you'd see on the data/address and any other IO pins of the Z80 when they are manipulated.