Re: Flakey ZipChip 8000

[Alex Freed <alex_news@mirrow.com>]

Steven Hirsch wrote:
> Who currently owns the design and manufacturing rights for the ZipChip?  
> I'm wondering if they would be interested in disclosing the RTL 
> description so it could be cloned into an FPGA.

Just like with the z180 card we don't really need the RTL to make a 
clone. If I remember correctly there is a patent covering the design 
that has enough info for us "reasonably skilled in the kraft".

The upcoming Carte Blanche will be a nice platform to implement it 
inside a real Apple 2.

BTW as an experiment I did build a complete Apple 2 on FPGA clocked at 
28 MHz and that was not a real limit.

-Alex.