MOS Technology 6510
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The MOS Technology 6510 is an 8-bit microprocessor designed by MOS Technology. It is a modified form of the very successful 6502. The 6510 is widely used in the Commodore 64 (C64) home computer and its variants.
"6510" redirects here. For the mobile phone, see Nokia 6510.
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Max. CPU clock rate | 0.985 MHz to 1.023 MHz |
Data width | 8 |
Address width | 16 |
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Instruction set | MOS 6502 |
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Predecessor(s) | MOS 6502 |
Successor(s) | MOS 8502 |
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The primary change from the 6502 is the addition of an 8-bit general purpose I/O port, although 6 I/O pins are available in the most common version of the 6510. In addition, the address bus can be made tristate and the CPU can be halted cleanly.