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)