Intel 8048


Intel 8048

(processor)The microcontroller used in IBM PC keyboards.The 8048 was inspired by, and similar to, the Fairchild F8microprocessor but, being a microcontroller, was designed forlow cost and small size. The 8048 has a modified Harvard architecture, with program ROM on chip and 64 to 256 bytesof RAM also on chip. I/O is mapped in its own address space.

Though the 8048 was eventually replaced by the very popularbut bizarre Intel 8051 and Intel 8052, even in 2000 it isstill very popular due to its low cost, wide availability, anddevelopment tools.