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)