The purpose of this page and its sub pages about members of Z80 family (and close relatives)is to collect and share information and good ideas. I know there are lots of people out there, who have developed some good utilities and hardware solutions.Now we all can share this infomation.This page contain docs, FAQs, source code, (cross-)assemblers, (cross-)compilers, utilities, etc. as well as links to other Z80 relevant stuff.Some of the info found here is property of Zilog, like hardware docs, instruction sets, and some of the software available. Read the copyright notice.If you know an URL matching the subject of this WWW-page, tell me, and give recommendations where to place best.Some of the links here are no more online and some are not yet correct: they are marked with a ??? sequence;in case you know the appropriate URL: I'm ready for an update. Please report all updates,corrections and suggestions to the webmaster Gaby Chaudry.Be aware of the fact that many products mentioned in this seriesof Z80 related documents are nowadays out of production: if youwant to start a project, don't forget to check where to get theparts from, and what the conditions are ... Yes I have read the legal info
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The 8080 emulation was added in 2014, for running vintage systems basedon the Intel 8080 with their original software.The original 1987 version could not be released public, because it includedproprietary components from various companies, but for the Z80 coreI keept the copyright.So an emulation of a virtual complete computer system capable ofrunnning CP/M 1, CP/M 2, CP/M 3 and MP/M 2 has been build, as an examplefor what can be done with this software. The Z80 cross assemblerwas used to bootstrap CP/M 2.2 on the system, for CP/M 3 and MP/M 2 theloader BIOS's were written on an UNIX host, final work then was doneunder CP/M 2.2 running on the emulated system.This virtual computer system has then been used to rebuild CP/M 1, CP/M 2,CP/M 3 and MP/M 2 completely from the sources. Also example implementationsof CP/NET have been build, to network the virtual systems withthis very early implementation of RPC (remote procedure calls). Additionaldisk images with all sources, tools and build scripts are available fordownload.The system also runs the UCSD p-System Versions I.4, I.5, II.0 and IV.0.Disk images for ready-to-run systems as well as sources to rebuild the Z80version are available in the download section.Features of the virtual cpmsim computer system:Lightning fast Zilog Z80 and Intel 8080 CPU, >1 GHz clock frequencydoable on consumer PC's
Clock generator tunable in 1MHz steps, helpful for video games orrunning vintage systems at realistic speed
Up to 16MB RAM, banked into 256 segments with programmable MMU. Sizeof segments adjustable in 256 byte page increment
4 x IBM 8" SD compatible floppy disk drives
2 x 4MB harddisk drives
1 x 512MB harddisk drive
1 x serial console port connected to the CRT
5 x serial ports connected to TCP/IP ports for more MP/M terminalsand CP/NET networking of multiple systems
1 x serial auxiliary port
1 x printer port
10ms interrupt timer, used for MP/M, Fuzix and other RTO's
hardware clock, readonly, uses date and time information from host
The Z80 core then was used together with John Kichury'sfront panel library,to build exact emulations of the Altair 8800, IMSA 8080 andCromemco Z-1 computer systems, that can be fully operated via the frontpanel similar to the original machines. The IMSAI 3D computer model buildby John is really stunning, see the screenshots.In 2014 an Intel 8080 emulation was added, so that these machines can runoriginal vintage 8080 software, like the MITS BASIC interpreter writtenby Bill Gates, Paul Allen and Monte Davidoff.The Z80, 8080 and I/O emulations are written in ANSI C, the front panelemulation in C++, for POSIX compatible Open Systems.Systems on which the sources are known to compile are:Apple OS X 10.9.2 and later
OpenBSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD, PCBSD
Linux x86 and x86-64 distributions like: Suse, Fedora Core, Debian
Solaris 9/10/11 for SPARC and x86 with GNU C
Microsoft Windows systems with Cygwin/CygwinX
Other native ports to Microsoft Windows have been done, linksare in the download section.Home page ofDigital Researchwhere everything began.All Digital Research CP/M material included was taken fromThe Unofficial CP/M Web site,the license for this material can be read there.Other commercial CP/M material included was taken fromCP/M Commercial Software Archive.Some user written tools were taken from theOak CP/M archive.Various programs from the Walnut Creek CP/M CD-ROM have been used too,an online copy is availablehere.The UCSD p-System on 8" disk images is available atBitsavers.For documentation and software of the old machines you should visitBitsavers anyway.Quickstart to run the Digital Research OS's:
Instructions per second (IPS) is a measure of a computer's processor speed. For complex instruction set computers (CISCs), different instructions take different amounts of time, so the value measured depends on the instruction mix; even for comparing processors in the same family the IPS measurement can be problematic. Many reported IPS values have represented "peak" execution rates on artificial instruction sequences with few branches and no cache contention, whereas realistic workloads typically lead to significantly lower IPS values. Memory hierarchy also greatly affects processor performance, an issue barely considered in IPS calculations. Because of these problems, synthetic benchmarks such as Dhrystone are now generally used to estimate computer performance in commonly used applications, and raw IPS has fallen into disuse.
The term is commonly used in association with a metric prefix (k, M, G, T, P, or E) to form kilo instructions per second (kIPS), million instructions per second (MIPS), and billion instructions per second (GIPS) and so on. Formerly TIPS was used occasionally for "thousand ips".
Before standard benchmarks were available, average speed rating of computers was based on calculations for a mix of instructions with the results given in kilo Instructions Per Second (kIPS). The most famous was the Gibson Mix,[2] produced by Jack Clark Gibson of IBM for scientific applications in 1959. Other ratings, such as the ADP mix which does not include floating point operations, were produced for commercial applications. The thousand instructions per second (kIPS) unit is rarely used today, as most current microprocessors can execute at least a million instructions per second.
Gibson divided computer instructions into 12 classes, based on the IBM 704 architecture, adding a 13th class to account for indexing time. Weights were primarily based on analysis of seven scientific programs run on the 704, with a small contribution from some IBM 650 programs. The overall score was then the weighted sum of the average execution speed for instructions in each class.[3]
The speed of a given CPU depends on many factors, such as the type of instructions being executed, the execution order and the presence of branch instructions (problematic in CPU pipelines). CPU instruction rates are different from clock frequencies, usually reported in Hz, as each instruction may require several clock cycles to complete or the processor may be capable of executing multiple independent instructions simultaneously. MIPS can be useful when comparing performance between processors made with similar architecture (e.g. Microchip branded microcontrollers), but they are difficult to compare between differing CPU architectures.[4] This led to the term "Meaningless Indicator of Processor Speed,"[5] or less commonly, "Meaningless Indices of Performance," [6] being popular amongst technical people by the mid-1980s.
Z80, an 8-bit microprocessor designed by Zilog founder and CEO Federico Faggin, first released by Zilog in July 1976. It was designed to be binary upward compatible with the Intel 8080 so that most notably the CP/M operating system would run unmodified, but offered an enhanced instruction set, two separate register banks plus two additional 16-bit index registers IX and IY.
Most of these programs use BFD, the Binary File Descriptor library, to do low-level manipulation. Many of them also use the opcodes library to assemble and disassemble machine instructions.
See the Sourceforge download page for the last released version including source and binary packages for Linux - amd64, Microsoft Windows - x86, Microsoft Windows - amd64 and Mac OS X - ppc and amd64.
Major Linux distributions take care of SDCC installation packages themselves and you will find SDCC in their repositories. Unfortunately SDCC packages included in Linux disributions are often outdated. In this case users are encouraged to compile the latest official SDCC release or a recent snapshot build by themselves or download the pre-compiled binaries from Sourceforge download page. 2ff7e9595c
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