The U80601 was a 16-bit

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made in 1989-1990 by

Kombinat Mikroelektronik Erfurt VEB Kombinat Mikroelektronik Erfurt was an important manufacturer of active electronic components in East Germany. It should not be confused with the more well-known VEB Kombinat Robotron Dresden which used integrated circuits from Kombinat ...

in the former

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of East Germany. It was manufactured in NMOS technology and encased in a PLCC or ceramic (CLCC) package (first samples). This

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(CPU) was a near-identical copy of the

Intel 80286 The Intel 80286 (also marketed as the iAPX 286 and often called Intel 286) is a 16-bit microprocessor that was introduced on February 1, 1982. It was the first 8086-based CPU with separate, non- multiplexed address and data buses and also the f ...

microprocessor. Because it was manufactured in

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it was not within Intel's legal power to stop it from being made or sold. The U80600 system included the following chips: * U80601: CPU (equiv. to Intel 80286) * U80606: Bus controller (equiv. to

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) * U80608: Error detection and correction (equiv. to Intel R8206) * U80610:

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for 16 kbit to 256 kbit DRAMs (equiv. to Intel R8207) Planned, but never released:
Fast 16-bit microprocessor system U 80600
' Dienstsache (official matter) EA/8/89, VEB Kombinat Robotron, Dresden, August 1989 (in German) * U80612: Clock generator (equiv. to DS80612, SAB82284) * U80613: FPU (equiv. to

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floating point math coprocessor) * U80614, U80617, U80619: Rolanet 2 network controller (similar to Ethernet, IEEE 802.3) * U80620: Integrated peripheral controller (

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or SAB82C206) * U80621: VGA graphics controller (equiv. to

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ET3000) * U80622:

RAMDAC A Brooktree RAMDAC A RAMDAC (random-access memory digital-to-analog converter) is a combination of three fast digital-to-analog converters (DACs) with a small static random-access memory (SRAM) used in computer graphics display controllers or ...

(equiv. to

Inmos Inmos International plc (trademark INMOS) and two operating subsidiaries, Inmos Limited (UK) and Inmos Corporation (US), was a British semiconductor company founded by Iann Barron, Richard Petritz, and Paul Schroeder in July 1978. Inmos Limited ...

IMSG171P50)

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