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by userbinator
4225 days ago
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A lot of newer CPUs aren't available in DIP packaging which means they won't be usable with a breadboard; the M68k is one of the more unusual ones in that it's available in a 64-pin DIP, the longest common DIP package. E.g. all the x86 processors moved to square packages starting with the 80186/80188, only the 8086/8088 were in DIP. DIP packages are problematic for high-speed operation since the leads to the pins near the ends are longer than the ones in the middle, creating signal skew; hence the move to square/BGA packages. That being said, there are microcontrollers with a relatively powerful ARM core and in DIP, but they usually have internal memory and use the pins for peripherals, not as a full memory data/address bus. |
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