The MCMotorola 6800 microprocessor was part of the MMotorola 6800 Microcomputer System that included serial and parallel interface ICs, RAM, ROM and other support chips.
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The Motorola EXORciser was a desktop computer built with the M6800 ICs that could be used for prototyping and debugging new designs.
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Motorola 6800 was popular in computer peripherals, test equipment applications and point-of-sale terminals.
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Motorola 6800 was assigned as the chief architect of the microprocessor project that produced the 6800.
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Motorola 6800 received patents on the voltage doubler and the 6800 chip layout.
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Motorola 6800's simulator, MTIME, was an advanced version of the TIME circuit simulator that Jenkins had developed at Berkeley.
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Motorola 6800 had worked several years as an electronics technician before earning his BSEE degree.
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The first year at Motorola 6800 was a series of three-month rotations through four different areas.
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Motorola 6800 worked the application group that was defining the M6800 system.
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Motorola 6800 is listed as an inventor on eighteen 6800 patents but is best known for a computer program, MIKBUG.
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Wiles stayed with Motorola 6800, moved to Austin and helped design the MC6801 microcontroller that was released in 1978.
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The Motorola 6800 had two 8-bit accumulators, a 16-bit index register, and a 16-bit stack pointer.
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Motorola 6800 had a three-state control that would disable the address bus to allow another device direct memory access.
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The "depletion-mode" processing required extra steps so Motorola 6800 decided to stay with "enhancement-mode" for the new single-supply-voltage design.
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The Motorola 6800 die size was reduced to 160 mils per side with an area of 16.
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The MCMotorola 6800 used a new single-voltage N-channel MOS process that proved to be very difficult to implement.
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Principal design effort on the MMotorola 6800 family was complete in mid-1974, and many engineers left the group or the company.
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Motorola 6800 did not sell the division but they did change the management and organization.
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Motorola 6800 was followed by seven other Motorola engineers: Harry Bawcom, Ray Hirt, Terry Holdt, Mike James, Will Mathis, Bill Mensch and Rod Orgill.
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MOS Technology vs Motorola 6800 lawsuit has developed a David and Goliath narrative over the years.
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On October 30, 1974, before the 6800 was released, Motorola filed numerous patents applications on the microprocessor family, and over twenty patents were subsequently granted.
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The other chips in the MMotorola 6800 family were redesigned to use depletion-mode technology.
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Motorola 6800 MC6803 was used in the TRS-80 MC-10 and the closely related Matra Alice.
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Architecture and instruction set of the Motorola 6800 were easy for beginners to understand and Heathkit developed a microprocessor course and the ET3400 Motorola 6800 trainer.
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