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RCA COSMAC 1806

General

General Information

 The COSMAC 1806 was a ROM-less and RAM-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 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 NA

Packages

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General Comments

CDP1806D white ceramic, silver lid, 40 gold side braised pins CDP1806D Standard operating range: 4V to10.5V. The ceramic “D” versions have an operating temperature range of -55o to 120oC
CDP1806D white ceramic, silver lid, 40 gold side braised pins CDP1806CD “C” suffix versions have a lower voltage range: 4V to 6.5V. Max clock is limited to 4Mhz.
CDP1806AD white ceramic, silver lid, 40 gold side braised pins CDP1806AD
CDP1806ACD white ceramic, silver lid, 40 gold side braised pins CDP1806ACD
CDP1806E black plastic, 40 tin leads CDP1806E The plastic “E” versions have an operating temperature range of -40o to 85oC, 
CDP1806CE black plastic, 40 tin leads CDP1806CE
CDP1806AE black plastic, 40 tin leads CDP1806AE
CDP1806ACE black plastic, 40 tin leads CDP1806ACE
CDP1806AQ black plastic QUIP, 44 tin leads CDP1806AQ The plastic QUIP “Q” versions have an operating temperature range of -40o to 85oC, 
CDP1806ACQ black plastic QUIP, 44 tin leads CDP1806ACQ

Related Chips

Related Chips

RCA 1801, RCA 1802, RCA 1804, RCA 1805

Second Sources

None

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