Military-Spec 68000 Processor for Amiga 2000

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Karlos wrote:
I guess this one was :-)

I was a little surprised to see it when a technician had to come around to service the washing machine. He pulled it apart, and there was this embedded system with a 16MHz rated 68EC020 sat in the midst of some DRAMs and other bits and bobs.

I had an unexpanded A600 at that time and was slightly peeved at the notion my mum's washing machine was probably considerably more powerful :lol:

That reminds me of a time in the mid 90's when I started taking every electronic device I could find to bits, to see if they had a 68K cpu in them... None did, but many had Z80s... :-(

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Lo wrote:
Gold Plated HeatSink?? where?  :-? Isn't that just the chip's "guts"?

Yup, the gold cover comes off if you heat it (it's only held on with a bit of solder).

Under there is the chip. It's not a heat sink, it's simply the cover to the chip cavity.

As far as I can tell, the "Mil-spec" chips are simply early verions of the chip which have to be wired up by hand, later chips can probably be done by machine and sealed in a plastic case in one go.