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FILENUMBER: 9919 BEGIN_KEYWORDS PROFESSOR'S KIT WESTERN DESIGN CENTER END_KEYWORDS DATE: July 2000 TITLE: PROFESSOR'S KIT FROM WESTERN DESIGN CENTER
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TITLE: PROFESSOR'S KIT FROM WESTERN DESIGN CENTER

The Western Design Center, Inc. (WDC) has created  a  Professor's
Kit  that  is  intended  for  the  professor to create derivative
teaching material and information that  is  optimized  for  their
teaching  environment. WDC will provide copyrighted materials and
a W65C122S Learning Kit for the  professor's  use  in  developing
course curriculum using WDC's 65C02 IP.

The W65C122S is a  system-chip  design  that  includes  encrypted
Verilog  behavioral models of WDC's W65C02 8-bit MPU, W65C22 I/O,
and 256K RAM and 4K ROM modules.  The professor can  then  create
derivative  teaching  materials  to distribute, under license, to
the student for SOC design. A  standard  cell  library  has  been
created for the memory map logic, On-Chip Bus (OCB) interface and
off-chip I/O ring.  WDC's standard cells are IO,  inverters,  NOR
gates,  and  NAND  gates.   For  manufacturing  system  chips and
protection of WDC's IP, WDC has licensed both  MOSIS  and  Tanner
Research  for  dropping  in and verifying system chips that reuse
WDC IP cores.  This is a step in the procurement of system  chips
from  wafer  foundries  accessed  through MOSIS' multiproject and
small  volume  fabrication  service.   After  wafer  fabrication,
system  chips  will  be  provided  to  the  professor, student or
researcher who designed the system-chip (SOC).  The  analysis  of
the  W65C122S system-chip is performed in WDC's W65C134 Developer
Board  (W65C134DB)  as  a  plug-replacement  for  WDC's   W65C134
microcontroller.  The  test  program  is supported by the on-chip
monitor, and debug  circuitry.  When  interfacing  with  industry
standard  ATE,  test vectors are created from the in-circuit test
programs when simulated using the Verilog test bench.

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