Western_Design_Center

Western Design Center

Western Design Center

American company

Not to be confused with Western Digital.

The Western Design Center (WDC), located in Mesa, Arizona, 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.[1]

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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[2] revolving around their processor designs. WDC also produces C compilers, assembler/linker packages, simulators, development–evaluation printed circuit boards,[3] and in-circuit emulators for their processors.

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Personal computer

The Mensch Computer is a W65C265 and W65C22-based hobbyist experimental personal computer named after company founder Bill Mensch.

References

  1. [1]
    Cass, Stephen (September 16, 2021). "Q&A With Co-Creator of the 6502 Processor: Bill Mensch on the microprocessor that powered the Atari 2600 and Commodore 64". IEEE Spectrum.
  2. [2]
    "Integrated Circuit (IC) | the Western Design Center, Inc".
  3. [3]
    "Single Board Computers (SBC) | the Western Design Center, Inc".
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