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That's fascinating, are you able to share anything about that system, or what those 6 Z80s are doing within it?
by LeonenTheDK 3y ago
That's fascinating, are you able to share anything about that system, or what those 6 Z80s are doing within it?
- JohnFen 3y agoI need to be a bit vague, but they're being used in an industrial control application to control machinery. Each CPU is in charge of a different step in the process. They collectively operate as a single system that also feeds data into a deep learning system used to direct the operations a little further down the line. Z80s are used here because they're tiny, low-power, cheap, readily available from multiple manufacturers (a particular bonus since the chip shortage remains a problem), and are extremely reliable. A more modern CPU would be more expensive and harder to guarantee behavior in.
- LeonenTheDK 3y agoThank you for sharing!