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RCA COSMAC 1805

General

General Information

 The COSMAC 1805 was a ROM-less version of the 1804. It’s primary use was for prototyping 1804 functions or for 1804 based systems with larger, external, memory requirements. It did include the 1804 RAM and Counter/Timer.

Production

3rd Quarter 1981
Designers Lead Designer: Joe Weisbecker, Team Lead: Jerry Herzog

Architecture

Type Data Word Address Space Max Clock Instruct- ions Assists Reg’s  GP Reg’s Math Reg’s Index IO Ports   Stack Interrupts Memory
MCUCMOS 8-bit 64K 4Mhz and 8Mhz 113 NA 16×16-bit or 32×8-bit 1 NA 8 Ext RAM 1 Level 64B RAM

Packages

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General Comments

CDP1805D white ceramic, silver lid, 40 gold side braised pins CDP1805D Standard operating range: 4V to10.5V. The ceramic “D” versions have an operating temperature range of -55o to 120oC
CDP1805CD white ceramic, silver lid, 40 gold side braised pins CDP1805CD “C” suffix versions have a lower voltage range: 4V to 6.5V. Max clock is limited to 4Mhz.
CDP1805AD white ceramic, silver lid, 40 gold side braised pins CDP1805AD
CDP1805ACD white ceramic, silver lid, 40 gold side braised pins CDP1805ACD
CDP1805E black plastic, 40 tin leads CDP1805E The plastic “E” versions have an operating temperature range of -40o to 85oC, 
CDP1805CE black plastic, 40 tin leads CDP1805CE
CDP1805AE black plastic, 40 tin leads CDP1805AE
CDP1805ACE black plastic, 40 tin leads CDP1805ACE
CDP1805AQ black plastic QUIP, 44 tin leads CDP1805AQ The plastic QUIP “Q” versions have an operating temperature range of -40o to 85oC, 
CDP1805ACQ black plastic QUIP, 44 tin leads CDP1805ACQ

Related Chips

Related Chips

RCA 1801, RCA 1802, RCA 1804, RCA 1806

Second Sources

None

Support Chips 1852 (8-bit I/O Port), 1854 (UART), 1856 (4-bit memory buffer), 1857 (4-bit I/O buffer)