- Western Design Center
The Western Design Center (WDC), located in
Mesa, Arizona , USA, is a company developing and manufacturing MOS 65xx-basedmicroprocessor s,microcontroller s (µCs), and related support chips. WDC was founded in1978 by co-holder of theMOS Technology 6502 patent,Bill Mensch , himself a former MOS employee.In addition to the actual microchips, WDC offers chips designs in the form of
IP core s to be used inside other chips (like ASICs), and provides ASIC andembedded system s consulting services revolving around their processor designs. WDC also makes Ccompiler s, assembler/linker packages, simulators, development/evaluation boards, andin-circuit emulator s for their processors.__NOTOC__Hardware products
Microchips
(1) In development as of February 2007.
Other
*The
Mensch Computer – A W65C265 and W65C22-based hobbyist experiment computer named after company founder Bill Mensch.External links
* [http://www.westerndesigncenter.com Western Design Center corporate website]
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