Intel MCS-96

These MCUs are commonly used in hard disk drives, modems, printers, pattern recognition and motor control.

Ford created the Ford Microelectronics facility in Colorado Springs in 1982 to propagate the EEC-IV family, develop other custom circuits for use in automobiles, and to explore the gallium arsenide integrated circuit market.

The main features of the MCS-96 family include a large on-chip memory, Register-to-register architecture, three operand instructions, bus controller to allow 8- or 16-bit bus widths, and direct flat addressability of large blocks (256 or more) of registers.

The microcontroller has an on-chip ALU, 4 channel 10-bit analog-to-digital converter (ADC), 8-bit pulse width modulator (PWM), watchdog timer, 4 16-bit software timers, hardware multiply and divide, and 8 KB of on-chip ROM.

The 8095 is ROMless and has five 8-bit high speed I/O, full duplex serial port[clarification needed], as well as an ADC input and PWM output.

As of 2021, microcontrollers using the MCS-96 architecture are still being manufactured by NIIET in Voronesh, Russia, as the 1874 series of integrated circuits.