Polymorph wrote:
To: PZ PZ wrote:BTW, the process designator is the last digit before the PL. You can find this info on the last page of the Datasheet. W65C816S6PL-14Looks like the one I bought a few weeks ago for my Zip GSX upgrade is of the .6 micron variety. What are the advantages of .6 micron as opposed to the older .8 micron? Does it allow higher over-clockability?
As other's have commented, it's probably hard to find fabs that maintain tooling for 0.8 micron. Also, a process shrink does not necessarily speed things up. I work in the business and have seen many cases where improvements in device switching speed are more than offset by increased wiring delays on the backend layers. As a matter of fact, for almost any technology produced in the last 10 years or so, wire delays generally predominate.
Steve