5 Oct
1998
5 Oct
'98
11:09 a.m.
Tony Duell wrote:
Does anyone else remember the PIC that was a clone of
the TM7000
microcontroller (or maybe the other way round)? It was something like a
PIC7001.
There was a PIC1670, but that had nothing to do with the TMS7000. The
GI PICs were introduced way before the TMS7000.
It's certainly possible that GI second sourced or cloned the TMS7000, but
I never heard of it. GI second-sourced the TMS32010 DSP chip, and Microchip
still offered it for a few years after they were spun off.
As far as more powerful (non-DSP) microprocessors go, they seemed to try
really hard to push the CP1600 16-bitter (Gemini?). Parts from this family
were found in the Intellivision video game system.
Eric