Intel system development kit: Difference between revisions

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{{2pPrimary sources|date=March 2017}}Each time [[Intel Corporation|Intel]] launched a new [[microprocessor]], they simultaneously provided a '''System Development Kit''' (SDK) allowing [[Computer engineering|engineers]], university students, and others to familiarise themselves with the new processor's concepts and features. The SDK single-board computers allowed the user to enter object code from a keyboard or upload it through a communication port, and then test run the code. The SDK boards provided a system monitor ROM to operate the keyboard and other interfaces. Kits varied in their specific features but generally offered optional memory and interface configurations, a serial terminal link, audio cassette storage, [[EPROM]] program memory. Intel's [[Intellec]] development system could download code to the SDK boards.

In addition, Intel sold a range of larger-scale development systems which ran their [[ISIS (operating system)|proprietary operating systems]] and hosted development tools{{snd}} [[assembler (computing)|assembler]]s and later [[compiler]]s{{snd}} targeting their processors. These included the [[Intel Microprocessor Development System|Microprocessor Development System]] (MDS), Personal Development System (PDS), [[In-circuit emulator|In-Circuit Emulators]] (ICE), [[device programmer]]s and so on. Most of these were rendered obsolete when the [[IBM PC]] became a de facto standard, and by other standardised technologies such as [[JTAG]].

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== SDK-51 ==

The SDK-51 MCS-51 System Design Kit, released in 1982, containedcontains all of the components of a single-board computer based on Intel's 8051 single-chip microcomputer, clocked at 12 MHZ MHz. The SDK-51 useduses the external ROM version of the 8051 (8031). ProvidesIt provides a serial port which can support either RS232 or [[current loop]] configurations, and also an audio cassette interface to save and load programs. Unlike some of Intel's other SDKs (e.g. SDK-85, SDK-86), the built-in monitor can only be controlled via the built-in QWERTY keyboard and cannot be commanded via the serial port. However, memory dumps and disassembly listings can be dumped out to the serial port, and it can also be used to transfer data to/from a connected PC in the form of [[Intel hex]] files.

[[Image:SYSDEV 51.jpg|thumb|Intel SDK-51]]

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== SDK-80 ==

The 8080 System Design Kit (SDK-80) of 1975 provided a training and prototype vehicle for evaluation of the 8080 microcomputer system (MCS-80), clocked at 0.5 MHZ MHz (1.95 us μs instruction cycle time). The SDK-80 allowed interface to an existing application or custom interface development. A monitor ROM was provided.

[[Image:MYSYST 80.jpg|thumb|Intel SDK-80]]

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== SDK-85 ==

The SDK-85 MCS-85 System Design Kit was a single board microcomputer system kit using the 8085 processor, clocked at 3 MHz with a 1.3 usμs instruction cycle time. It contained all components required to complete construction of the kit, including LED display, keyboard, resistors, caps, crystal, and miscellaneous hardware. A preprogrammed ROM was supplied with a system monitor. The kit included a 6-digit LED display and a 24-key keyboard for direct insertion, examination, and execution of a user's program. It also had a serial transistor interface for a 20 mA current loop Teletype using the bit-serial SID and SOD pins on the CPU. The maximum user RAM for programs and data, on the factory standard kit, was limited to 0xC2 or 194 decimal bytes. The full 256 bytes was available on the expansion RAM. User programs could call subroutines in the monitor ROM for functions such as: Serial In/Out, CRLF, Read Keyboard, Write Display, time delay, convert binary to two character hexadecimal etc.

[[Image:MYSYST 85.jpg|thumb|Intel SDK-85 Kit]]

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*[http://www.intel-vintage.info/inteldevelopmenttools.htm More info. about Intel SDKs]

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