DESIGN IDEAS BOOK: for the CDP1802 COSMAC Microprocesor BMP802

BMP802 means Brussels Microprocessor Publication from 1980, the second published book. At this time, I had the opportunity to be part of the European Microprocessor Applications team in Brussels.
In 1980, the CDP1802 was the only CMOS microprocessor available.
We supported all of the customers across Europe, which involved as well quite a bit of travelling to see these customers.
I had the opportunity to visit many customers across Europe, and this meant as well the opportunity to visit customers in Israel, and as well the ones in South Africa.
I had the chance to see the Wine country there and the local distributor showed us what to taste.
One of the problems I saw at the time was the missing support material for these CDP1802 systems.
Introductory material to show how to start.
So, I collected all of the relevant material I could get hold of, from people in Brussels and as well from the ones in the US, especially Somerville - a place I had the opportuntity to visit a few times and to talk to the people there who designed new chips in this line, especially the MDU 1855 and the video interface 1869 and 1870.
The result was the material which lead to the BMP802 – this book.
It was fun to do all of the cut and paste for this book, and Marie-Claire was extremely helpful with all of the typing.
All of the software you can now download for free from the Internet, was not available then. Cut and Paste really meant Scissors and Glue – Cut and Paste.
This book was used with customers then to promote the 1800 Microprocessor products.
Now, about 40 years later, I have started to publish books and eBooks via amazon regarding different subjects, see
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Juergen-Pintaske/e/B00N8HVEZM
And so I asked RCA/ now Renesas, if I could get the copyright permission to start back from zero, type most of it in again, but as well use as much as possible from the original book done at the time to make the BMP802 available again – now as a Print Book or as eBook later.
For people to enjoy and to flick through.
There is quite a group of people in the world who learnt programming using the 1802.
Last week the permission for this project arrived from the responsible person at Renesas, so I could get started.

Please be aware, that this book has been put together 40 years ago, and technology has changed quite dramatically during this time.
But the idea here was to preserve the facts and ideas that were relevant at the time.
As said before, I worked as Microprocessor Application Engineer iat RCA in Brussels.
The contents that was put together is very much based on the questions the group had from customers / designers.
Some of the data might not be relevant today, but rather than re-writing and updating this book, it felt better to just keep it a much as possible to the original.
So, this book is not the latest microprocessor data of 2021, but as it was the latest data in 1980.