Western Design Center
Type | Privately held company |
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Industry | Electronics |
Founded | 1978Mesa, Arizona, United States | in
Founder | Bill Mensch |
Headquarters | Mesa , United States |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | Bill Mensch |
Products | Microprocessors, microcontrollers, support devices |
Owner | Bill Mensch |
Website | wdc65xx |
The Western Design Center (WDC), located in Mesa, Arizona, United States, is a company which develops intellectual property for, and licenses manufacture of, MOS Technology 65xx based microprocessors, microcontrollers (µCs), and related support devices. WDC was founded in 1978 by a former MOS Technology employee and coholder of the MOS Technology 6502 patent, Bill Mensch.
Beyond discrete devices, WDC offers device designs in the form of semiconductor intellectual property cores (IP cores) to use inside other chips such as application-specific integrated circuit (ASICs), and provides ASIC and embedded systems consulting services revolving around their processor designs. WDC also produces C compilers, assembler/linker packages, simulators, development–evaluation printed circuit boards, and in-circuit emulators for their processors.
Hardware products[]
Devices[]
Name | Type | Comments |
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W65C02S | 8-bit microprocessor | Enhanced static core CMOS version of the MOS Technology 6502 microprocessor |
W65C816S | 16-bit microprocessor | Extended version of the W65C02S, featuring larger instruction set, selectable register sizes and 24-bit memory addressing |
W65C134S | 8-bit microcontroller | Microcontroller with W65C02S core and mask-programmable ROM |
W65C265S | 16-bit microcontroller | Microcontroller with W65C816S core and mask-programmable ROM |
W65C21N | I/O device | Drop-in replacement for MOS Technology 6520 & Motorola 6820/6821 peripheral interface adapters (PIA) |
W65C21S | I/O device | Lower power, higher performance version of the W65C21N PIA |
W65C22N | I/O device | Drop-in replacement for the MOS Technology 6522 versatile interface adapter (VIA) |
W65C22S | I/O device | Modified version of the MOS Technology 6522 VIA, with totem-pole IRQ output |
W65C51N | I/O device | Drop-in replacement for the MOS Technology 6551 asynchronous communications interface adapter (ACIA) |
Personal computer[]
The Mensch Computer is a W65C265 and W65C22-based hobbyist experimental personal computer named after company founder Bill Mensch.
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- Electronics companies of the United States
- Companies based in Mesa, Arizona
- Computer companies established in 1978
- Electronics companies established in 1978
- 1978 establishments in Arizona