Have you folks heard of the Game Axe? It's a handheld NES (6502) that
obviously emulates the TIA etc.. It is known to play every game that has
been tested with great acuracy. The Game Axe is available for about $100
from www.lik-sang.com and also PROVES that a handheld Atari is possible....
- Tim -
----- Original Message -----
From: Glenn Saunders <cybpunks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <stella@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, July 01, 2000 10:10 PM
Subject: [stella] miniaturization
> It looks like a tiny version of the 6502 is already available:
>
> From:
>
> http://www.wdesignc.com/pressreleases.html
>
> MESA, Arizona, April 30, 1999 - The Western Design Center, Inc. (WDC) and
> Advance Reality Technology Inc., (ART), Hsin-Chu, Taiwan, announce that
ART
> has successfully produced W65C02STM silicon on TSMC's 0.5u process. This
> effort resulted in a core size of 0.82mm2 after scaling WDC's original
> GDSII layers and selectively biasing to match TSMC's targeted 0.45u rules.
> WDC's original hard core design has now been successfully retargeted and
> run at 1.2u, 0.8u, 0.6u, 0.5u (0.45u), and 0.35u by scaling and
> selective-biasing. The voltage range of operation for the 0.5u core is
2.2V
> to 3.3V with a range of power from 0.3mw/Mhz at 3.0V and 0.2mw/Mhz at
2.4V.
> These cores have been verified with WDC's industry-standard test benches
at
> WDC's test laboratory on a Sentry 21 operating to 20 MHz.
>
> MESA, Arizona, March 23, 1999 - The Western Design Center (WDC) and
Novatek
> Microelectronics Corp., (Novatek), Hsin-Chu, Taiwan, announced that
Novatek
> has successfully produced W65C02STM silicon on UMC Group's 0.35u process.
> This effort resulted in a core size of 0.41 mm2 after scaling WDC's
> original GDSII layers and selectively biasing to match UMC Group's
targeted
> 0.35u rules. WDC's original hard core design has now been successfully
> retargeted and run at 1.2u, 0.8u, 0.6u, 0.5u, and 0.35u by scaling and
> selective-biasing. In 1998, Novatek scaled this same core design to UMC
> Group's 0,5u process. The voltage range of operation for the 0.35u core is
> 1.5V to 5.25V with a range of power from 0.3 mw/MHz at 2V and 2.25 mw/MHz
> at 5V. These cores have been verified with WDC's industry-standard test
> benches at WDC's test laboratory on a Sentry 21 operating to 20MHz.
>
>
>
> Glenn Saunders - Producer - Cyberpunks Entertainment
> Personal homepage: http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/1698
> Cyberpunks Entertainment: http://cyberpunks.uni.cc
>
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