The Raspberry Pi is a credit-card-sized single-board computer developed in the UK by the Raspberry Pi [6][7][8][9][10] Foundation with the intention of promoting

the teaching of basic computer science in schools. The Raspberry Pi is manufactured in two board configurations through licensed manufacturing deals with Newark element14 (Premier Farnell), RS Components and Egoman. These companies sell the [11] Raspberry Pi online. Egoman produces a version for distribution solely in China and Taiwan, which can be distinguished from other Pis by their red coloring and lack of FCC/CE marks. The hardware is the same across all manufacturers. The Raspberry Pi has a Broadcom BCM2835 system on a chip (SoC), which includes an ARM1176JZF[12] S 700 MHz processor,VideoCore IV GPU, and was originally shipped with 256 megabytes of RAM, [4][13] later upgraded to 512 MB. It does not include a built-in hard disk or solid-state drive, but uses an SD [14] card for booting and persistent storage. The Foundation provides Debian and Arch Linux ARM distributions for download. Tools are available [16][17] [18] for Python as the main programming language, with support for BBC BASIC (via the RISC [19] [16] [20] [16] OS image or the Brandy Basic clone for Linux), C, Java and Perl. Zilog, Inc., previously known as ZiLOG (which stands for "Z (the last word in) integrated logic"), American manufacturer of 8-bit and 16-bitmicrocontrollers, and is most famous for its Intel 8080compatible Z80 series.
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Zilog was incorporated in California in 1974 by Federico Faggin, who left Intel after working on the 4004 and 8080 microprocessors. The company became a subsidiary of Exxon in 1980, but the management and employees bought it back in 1989 led by Dr. Edgar Sack. Zilog went public in 1991, but was acquired in 1998 by Texas Pacific Group. Curtis Crawford replaced Dr. Edgar Sack and changed the company's direction towards 32-bit Data Communications Processors. Bonds were sold against the company to fund the new developments, but after the Internet bubble burst in 2000 and the resultant reduction in customer demand for such products, Curtis Crawford was replaced by James (Jim) Thorburn, who reorganized the company under Chapter 11 bankruptcy in late 2001 and refocused it back to the 8- and 16-bit microcontroller market. The Z80(i) was an improved implementation of the Intel 8080 architecture, which was faster, more capable, and much cheaper; alongside the 6502 it was one of the most popular 8-bit processors for general purpose microcomputers and other applications. It was used in the Nintendo Game Boy, the Sinclair ZX80, ZX81, ZX Spectrum and the Amstrad CPC home computers as well as theMSX architecture and the Microbee and Tandy TRS-80 seriesamong many others. More so than simply sparking improvements in the budding field of home computing and gaming, the Z-80 also sparked a revolution in electronic music, as the first truly programmable polyphonic synthesizers (as well as their peripherals) relied heavily on implementations of this CPU. Many Texas Instruments graphing calculators used the Z80 as the main processor, and the chip found continued use in some game consoles such as the Sega Mega Drive (Genesis in the United States) as a dedicated sound controller. The CP/M operating system (and its huge software library featuring hits like Wordstar and dBase) was known to be "the Z80 disk operating system", and its success is partly due to the popularity of the Z80. After the Z80 Zilog introduced the 16-bit Z8000 and 32-bit Z80000 processors, but these were not particularly successful, and the company refocused on the microcontroller market, producing both basic

CPUs and application-specific integrated circuits/standard products (ASICs/ASSPs) built around a CPU core. As well as producing processors, Zilog has produced several other components. One of the most famous was the Z8530 serial communications controller as found on Sun SPARCstations and SPARCservers up to the SPARCstation 20. Zilog also formed a Systems Division, which designed the Zilog System 8000, a Z8000- or Z80000based multiuser computer system running a Unix derivative called ZEUS (Zilog Enhanced UNIX [8] System). Zilog attempted to enter the 32-bit microcontroller market in February 2006 with the demonstration [9][10] of ARM9-based Point-Of-Sale (POS) microcontroller product line. The final product was released in [11] 2007 called Zatara. Sales were disappointing and the entire ARM9 series was sold to Maxim Integrated Products in 2009. Zilog also produced Zdots single board computers. It includes Zilog eZ80AcclaimPlus controller, 1MiB flash memory, 512KiB SRAM, 10BaseT Ethernet Controller, IrDA transceiver, 2 x 60-pin system [12] expansion interface with full MPU bus/control signals, RJ-45 Ethernet connector. Motion detection [13] version includes Z8 Encore! XP MCU.