Domingo F. Pana Jr.
Milestone of Microcontrollers
Year Brand/Name Speed No. of Usage/Applications
Transistors/Core
1974 Motorola 2MHz 8-bit Used for Motorola EXORciser, desktop computers build.
6800
1974 TMS1000 0.4MHz 4-bit Could directly interface to high voltage displays.
1975 Fairchild F8 1.79MHz 8-bit The 3850 does not decode instructions - 3851 or 3856 program
(3850) storage unit (PSU) chips, dynamic memory interface (DMI) chip,
3853 static memory interface (SMI) chip or 3861/3871 parallel
I/O (PIO) chips are used for this task. If necessary, multiple PSU,
DMI, SMI and PIO chips can be used together with one 3850 ALU
chip.
1975 MOS 3Mhz 3500-4200 Popular home video game consoles and computers, such as the
Technology Atari 2600, Atari 8-bit family, Apple II, Nintendo Entertainment
6500 System, Commodore 64, and others,
1976 Intel 8048 11MHz 8-bit The MCU has on-chip clock oscillator, 2 8-bit timers, 27 I/O
(MCS-48) ports, 64 bytes of RAM and 1 KB of masked ROM.
1977 S2000 1MHz 4-bit load and exchange operations, basic arithmetic instructions, I/O
and control instructions
1977 Mostek 3870 4MHz 8-bit The microcontroller includes up to 4 KB mask-programmable
ROM, 64 bytes scratchpad RAM and up to 64 bytes executable
RAM. The MCU also integrates 32-bit I/O and programmable
timer
197 AMI S2200 3.6MHz 4-bit Improved substitute to the S200
1980 Intel 8051 12MHz 8-bit In addition to on-chip clock oscillator, 2 16-bit timers, 4 I/O
ports and a serial port, all 8051 and 80C51 chips have 128 bytes
of RAM and 4 KB masked ROM
1982 NEC V25 5MHz 8-bit Dual-channel UART and baud rate generator for serial
communications
2009 NXP 50MHz 32-bit UART, one or two SPI controllers, I2 bus interface, clock
LPC1100 oscillator, 8-channel 10-bit ADC, four general purpose
timers/counters and a system timer.
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_microcontrollers
https://en.wikipedia.org
https://ti.com