What kind of IC is this

[Ethan Dicks]

On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 5:06 AM, Roy J. Tellason <rtellason at verizon.net> wrote:
>> My fractional portion of currency is that the 630x is a hitachi varient of
>> the 680x (6800 single chip mpus)...
>
> I have some of these,  HD6303Y in particular,  and a databook that covers
> them...
>
> Rather odd packaging,  though,  64-pin "shrunk" DIP.  I did manage to snag a
> wire-wrap socket for these as a sample at a trade show,  but I'm still either
> going to have to drill a bunch of holes in my perfboard or bend the pins or
> something to use it.

I have a board someone gave me to strip for parts - it has some
7-segment LEDs and a few other bits of interest (it looks like the
front panel for some sort of electronic instrument).  I wasn't
planning on extracting the CPU, but I could.

Difficulties with working with the package format are certainly
coloring my opinion about wanting to re-use it.  I have a couple of
"real" 6800s and 6802s.   I guess I'd have to read the 6303 datasheet
to determine if it had any features that made it interesting enough to
attempt to reuse.

-ethan