Re: Fwd: The End of an Era: Zilog Discontinues the Z80 Microprocessor

2024-05-04 Thread Gregory Nutt
On 5/4/2024 7:57 AM, Kenneth Pettit wrote: On the Tiny Tapeout discord channel, the engineer who submitted the Z80 design said the z88dk toolchain was the "most mature".  Looking at it I believe he may be correct as it has a full compliment of tools simialr to an GNU toolchain. It uses sdcc but

Re: Fwd: The End of an Era: Zilog Discontinues the Z80 Microprocessor

2024-05-04 Thread Kenneth Pettit
On the Tiny Tapeout discord channel, the engineer who submitted the Z80 design said the z88dk toolchain was the "most mature".  Looking at it I believe he may be correct as it has a full compliment of tools simialr to an GNU toolchain. It uses sdcc but with improvements / enhancements and it is

Re: Fwd: The End of an Era: Zilog Discontinues the Z80 Microprocessor

2024-05-04 Thread Byron Ellacott
Hi Greg & Kenneth, As far as I'm aware the only C compilers around for the (e)Z80 are still ZDSII, SDCC, and LLVM patched for the TI 84+ calculator, all with drawbacks: ZDSII is C89, SDCC doesn't support the eZ80 in 24-bit mode, and the LLVM patch only produces binaries loadable on the calculator.

Re: Fwd: The End of an Era: Zilog Discontinues the Z80 Microprocessor

2024-05-03 Thread Kenneth Pettit
Hi Greg, I don't actually use the Z80 so cannot recommend a toolchain for it.  I could ask on the Tiny Tapeout discord channel though. Ken On 5/3/24 7:45 AM, Gregory Nutt wrote: On 5/3/2024 8:31 AM, Kenneth Pettit wrote: There is an effort to make a Z80 replacement chip: https://app.tinyt

Re: Fwd: The End of an Era: Zilog Discontinues the Z80 Microprocessor

2024-05-03 Thread Gregory Nutt
On 5/3/2024 8:31 AM, Kenneth Pettit wrote: There is an effort to make a Z80 replacement chip: https://app.tinytapeout.com/projects/668 This is just a start since there are limited I/O pins on Tiny Tapeout, but I think the plan might be to eventually put it on an MPW to have a fully functiona