Support Chips
A key factor in the success of the 8080 was the broad range of support chips available, providing serial communications, counter/timing, input/output, direct memory access, and programmable interrupt control amongst other functions.
- 8251-Communication Controller
- 8253-Programmable Interval Timer
- 8255-Programmable Peripheral Interface
- 8257-DMA Controller
- 8259-Programmable Interrupt Controller
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