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You can hand clock a Z80. There is a certain magic to that.
by Marazan 8y ago
You can hand clock a Z80. There is a certain magic to that.
- saagarjha 8y agoI'm sorry, but what does "hand clocking" a Z80 mean?
- dangerbird2 8y agoI think GP's use of "hand-clocking" to refer to the factthat the z80 can run on a very low clock rate, to the extent that you can have a hand switch that sends individual clock pulses to the processor. This can be useful for testing purposes as well as for low power operation in embedded applications. http://www.thomasloven.com/blog/2013/01/Z80-Tester/ http://www.thomasloven.com/blog/2013/01/Z80-Tester/
- Marazan 8y agoAs the Z80 doesn't use dynamic registers (I think basically the only "modern" CPU to make this decision) it doesn't need a minimum clock signal speed to refresh the registers as every other CPU does. This means you can rig up a push button switch and manually advanced the clock one button press at a time. To me that's super cool. It also makes them really easy to debug.