Are 68000 or 6800 family processors used anymore??

[lebevti]

i don't mean only the 68000 itself, but also the derivatives of it over the years

what is the latest version of the 68000 family and is it used these days in any applications?

 

[yfx4]

Copied from that FINE and reliable source, wikipedia:

The 68000 also saw success in the field of industrial control systems. Among the systems which benefited from having a 68000 or derivative as their microprocessor were families of Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs) manufactured by Allen-Bradley, Texas Instruments and subsequently, following the acquisition of that division of TI, by Siemens. Users of such systems do not accept product obsolescence at the same rate as domestic users and it is entirely likely that despite having been installed over 20 years ago, many 68000-based controllers will continue in reliable service well into the 21st century.

The 683XX microcontrollers, based on the 68000-architecture, are used in networking and telecom equipment, television set-top boxes, laboratory and medical instruments, and even handheld calculators. The MC68302 and its derivatives have been used in many telecom products from Cisco, 3com, Ascend, Marconi, Cyclades and others. Past models of the Palm PDAs and the Handspring Visor used the DragonBall, a derivative of the 68000. AlphaSmart uses the DragonBall family in later versions of its portable word processors. Texas Instruments uses the 68000 in its high-end graphing calculators, the TI-89 and TI-92 series and Voyage 200. Early versions of these used a specialized microcontroller with a static 68EC000 core; later versions use a standard MC68SEC000 processor.

A modified version of the 68000 formed the basis of the IBM XT/370 Hardware emulator of a System 370 processor.

 

[Ian Rogers]

Freescale now ... https://www.freescale.com/webapp/sps/site/homepage.jsp?code=DRMCR16BIT
They have the hitachi H8 as well... VERY good microcontrollers.

 

[3v0]

Did you mean Motorola now Freescale ?

 

[Ian Rogers]

Yes.... Google bought the rest of motorola.... Freescale do the processors.. I think you can still buy the 68300 32 bit series.