Q. Why did you choose the name "Rabbit" for a microprocessor?
Q. What's different about the Rabbit compared to other microprocessors such as the Z80, Z180, 8051, V25, etc.?
Q. How does the Rabbit's performance compare to a Z80 or Z180?
Q. The Z180 is available with clock speed of 33 MHz while the Rabbit has a maximum clock speed of 30 MHz. How can the Rabbit be three times faster?
Q. What are some important new instructions on the Rabbit?
Q. Give some examples of how the Rabbit's new instructions speed up operations.
Q. Can I port existing Z80 or Z180 assembly code to the Rabbit?
Q. How do input/output instructions work on the Rabbit?
Q. Why didn't you keep strict compatibility with the Z80 and Z180?
Q. Why did you change the Z180 memory mapping unit?
Q. How does the Rabbit execute programs larger than the 64K addressing space of the 16-bit addresses used in the instructions?
Q. Can the Rabbit access data in the full 1-megabyte memory space?
Q. Why does the Rabbit have multiple interrupt priorities?
Q. What is cold boot and what are the advantages?
Q. What is cloning and what is it used for?
Q. Describe the on-chip serial ports.
Q. Describe the slave port and how it can be used.
Q. Give some examples of typical applications for a Rabbit slave system.
Q. Describe the on-chip parallel I/O.
Q. Describe the on-chip battery backable clock.
Q. Describe the glueless memory interface.
Q. How do you program a Rabbit-based system?
Q. Do I have to include the programming port in my system?
Q. Z-World offers a $49 small controller board called the Jackrabbit that is based on the Rabbit processor. How does the Jackrabbit compare with the $39 Stamp single board computer produced by Parallax, Inc.?
Q. Describe the low-power "sleepy" mode of operation.
Q. Describe the Rabbit's features that make it suited for low-power or battery-operated applications.
Q. How is the Rabbit floating-point performance?