Re: Die shot of the 8500R4 CPU

From: smf <smf_at_null.net>
Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2016 12:06:28 +0000
Message-ID: <cb378971-6fa7-14ed-883d-a6bbf3d49dca@null.net>
The 8500 only has P0-P5 bonded out.

I've not seen an 8501 die shot, but I assumed the 8 bits were all there 
and they only bonded out P0-P4 & P6-P7. It had to fit in a 40 pin chip 
and they also dropped NMI & Phi2 out.

It would have made more sense if the 6510/8500 bonded out P0-P3 & P6 & 
P7, as you could use N & V flags after an LDA for branching based on 
P6/P7 without any comparison instruction required.

On 27/12/2016 18:14, Gerrit Heitsch wrote:
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> Anyone wants to compare the 8500 and the 8501? Now you can...
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> https://siliconpr0n.org/map/mos/8500r4
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> I would really like to know why they removed port bit 5 from the 8501 
> while the 8500 has all 8 port bits them.
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>  Gerrit
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