A fAMily of microcontrollers from Zilog with on-chip RAM and ROM. The Z8 is not related to the {Zilog Z80}, it uses a totally different architecture and instruction set. Competitors include the Motorola 6805/68HC05 fAMily or the Intel 8051-fAMily (or i51-fAMily or MCS51-fAMily - there is no standard fAMily nAMe). (1995-04-22)