Questions tagged [rca-1802]

Use this tag for questions related to the RCA 1802 and related CPUs.

The RCA CDP1802 is an 8-bit CMOS microprocessor introduced by RCA in early 1976.

It was a 40-pin integrated circuit CPU, implemented using a "Complementary Symmetry Monolithic Array Computer" architecture, and therefore commonly referred to (along with the 1801, its two-chip equivalent) as COSMAC, at least within RCA. Hobbyists tended to just call it the 1802.

It was used in, for example, the COSMAC Elf and the COMX-35 computer.

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How did the RCA1802 'call' and 'return' instructions work?

The RCA 1802 processor was used in a number of systems such as the ELF and COMX-35, and also apparently in the US space program (with its hardened variant). From memory, it had a rather unusual set of instructions for doing function calls and…
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