National Semiconductor PACE
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national-semiconductor-pace-206-9988506
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National Semiconductor PACE
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National Semiconductor's IPC-16A PACE, short for "Processing and Control Element", was the first commercial single-chip 16-bit microprocessor, announced in late 1974. It was a single-chip implementation of their early 1973 five-chip IMP-16 architecture, which in turn had been inspired by the Data General Nova minicomputer. To the basic IMP-16, PACE added a new operational mode, "byte mode", which was useful for working with 8-bit data like ASCII text. Implemented in pMOS, as was common for the e
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Single-chip 16-bit microprocessor
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Semiconductor_PACE
date created:
2009-01-02T16:07:22Z
date modified:
2024-09-10T17:21:06Z
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