Z86160

The Z86160 is a member of the Z8® single-chip microcontroller family offering a unique architecture that is characterized by Zilog's 8-bit microcontroller core.

This Z86160 CMOS microcontroller features fast execution, efficient use of memory, sophisticated interrupts, input/ output bit manipulation capabilities, and easy hardware/ software system expansion along with low-cost and low-power consumption.

For applications demanding powerful I/O capabilities, the Z86160 fulfills this with custom I/O, specifically tailored to  meet the needs of set-top requirements.

Four basic address spaces, the Program Memory, Data Memory, 236 General-Purpose Registers, and 512 bytes of protected RAM, support a wide range of memory configurations. The protected RAM is mapped into data memory.To unburden the program from coping with real-time problems such as counting/timing, and serial data com muni`cations, the Z86160 offers two on-chip counter/timers with a large number of user selectable modes, and an asynchronous receiver/transmitter (UART) (see Block Diagram).