Education

WDC and its founder’s family has a long history in supporting engineering education at universities such as Temple University in Philadelphia, The University of Notre Dame in South Bend, The University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona State University in Tempe, and most recently Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado. So it is natural that WDC would continue to invest in future engineers and their education. This page will begin to articulate our plans in engaging future engineers in the discovery of the 65xx brand microprocessing for student projects. The 65xx microprocessors continue to be of interest for current educational systems, hobby systems, redesigns or upgrades of Apple, Acorn, Atari, Nintendo, and Commodore PC and video game systems. In short, the 65xx microprocessing systems are fun and educational. This page will help you become familiar with what WDC is doing to support engineering education.

Temple University

"WDC is quite proud of the universities and educational institutions we support, and for good reason, see this information about Temple University in Philadelphia, Birthplace of Freedom!"

August 22, 2007 | Metro
"Temple University was named the No. 1 school when it comes to a diverse student body according to the latest edition of the Princeton Review’s "Best 366 Colleges," which was released yesterday," writes Mike Benner in a page 1 story. "Many experts have long hailed diversity as an important factor in education, noting that a diverse environment promotes personal growth, a sense of community and critical thinking. It has also become a deciding factor as students choose a college, possibly accounting for Temple’s nearly 18 percent increase in enrollment since 2000."
http://philly.metro.us/metro/local/article/Diversity_rules_at_Temple/9743.html

APATCO

"The NCS 2056T is a Educational Breadboard Computer Kit that integrates computer history with the assembly of a working computer. This kit uses the Western Design Center W65C02S microprocessor, which is an updated version of the MOS 6502 processor that made computers like the KIM-1, Ohio Scientific, Commodore PET, Apple II, Commodore64, Atari 8-bit Computer Family 800XL, and BBC Acorn Computer possible. The student will assemble the computer chips on a breadboard, and will even create a standard keyboard interface and attach a 128x64 LCD module for a display.

This kit comes with 2 printed manuals (A Technical Manual, and an Assembly Manual). The included CD-ROM also contains datasheets, and a 450+ page '6502 Programming Manual' in PDF format, and other various useful tools."

ProSDK

The 65xx Professional Software Development Kit (ProSDK) is sold for use in development of products that feature 65xx processors from WDC and its licensees. The ProSDK is NOT for reverse engineering of our technology in any form and is NOT provided for development of commercial products that use non–WDC 65xx processors in Core or Chip form.

It is recommended that you review the Download and Installation Guide before downloading the ProSDK. The guide also includes instructions for finding your MAC address.

The ProSDK is protected software and requires a license file for proper functionality. The TIDE tool will work without a license, giving you the ability to work within the IDE, create projects and edit source code. All other tools including the assemblers and compilers will not function with out a license file provided by the WDC. All Trial and Purchased ProSDK licenses are based on the MAC Address of your Ethernet Adapter. Please provide your MAC Address when filling out the form to download the ProSDK.

Tool suite list:

Terbium Integrated Development Environment (TIDE)

ANSI Standard C Compiler with Optimizer

Simulator/Debugger

Librarian/Symbol Examiner/Object Examiner

Assembler/Linker

ProSDK Download

Download and Installation Guide