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MC14500 1 bit CPU (ICU)

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The MC14500 is an Industrial Control Unit (ICU) that is also considered being a 1 bit processor. It was produced by Motorola, but the production has been stopped years ago. Today the MC14500 fits well into affordable FPGA's including all its peripherals and program memory. Different reasons exist to still today to use a MC14500 design:

  • Creating spare parts to for old MC14500 machines
  • Reuse of MC14500 software
  • Separation between FPGA development (VHDL code => electronic specialist) and application (application engineer)
  • Low cost PLC alternative
  • Fun to run historic stuff on modern FPGA's
  • Learning project using FPGA's, Altera Quartus II Software and VHDL

Assembler and disassembler

The assembler and disassembler are just two python scripts,have two man pages and some sample programs. Download the latest version mc14500-*.*.tar.gz". See www.python.org to get some help how to install python on your computer.

Guide

Guide in html or pdf

Simulator

MC14500 Simulator