Is anyone at Zilog listening?? Hello?? Thump Thump.

We're looking to purchase, beg, borrow or steal the sources for ZTP 1.34. None of the later releases from India were worth anything and are very, very buggy (an example of you get what you pay for). Whenever I contacted Zilog (when it was still Zilog) nobody knew how to get sources for 1.34, or they have it and won't release it - citing something about "not sure who owns it anymore". I don't think any of the original players that wrote the stack for Zilog are even around to complain any more??

Here's the problem: We made a decision in 2005 to use Zilog in our products, and after substantial R & D expense we've got thousands of units in the field and hundreds more coming off the assembly line every month. The chip itself works fine, but it seems Zilog itself has just fizzled out completely. We've got the ZTP 1.34 stack tuned up and its operating 24/7/365 in almost any network environment we put it in. If we try to use even the simplest test implementation of ZTP 2.xx we'd be surprised if it ran more than 48 hrs before crashing on a busy network - for a variety of reasons.

Zilog used to answer phones, and had knowledgeable engineers to talk to on the phone. Now Zilog has gione to this goofy web page were tech support is non-existent, and it takes weeks or months to get an answer on anything. "Support Ticket" is an old phrase meaning "Easier to ignore the customer"

I know we have a new forum here, but it seems pretty quiet also. I see some things here are going unanswered also, but maybe that's because of Xmas break.

What we'd like to do is to not necessarily upgrade everything, we just need to make a few tweaks to the existing stack. The ez80F91 is really a pretty neat chip, and the concept of ZTP 1.34 / ZDS 4.09 is really. really good for a bundled development system for a CPU, its just that over the last few years it really fell apart.

Is anyone willing to share 1.34 sources??

Hi John
We are retrieving the 1.34 source code to make it available for you to purchase.
The process is to go to the Tools and Software ->Software Download
Select “Download” on the right side of the page (it doesn’t matter which one).
Type in the comments what you need (Source code ZTP 1.34), select your country then select the “save” icon (by the red X icon). This should send the request.

Thanks Tom. Its nice to know Zilog suddenly found these again <Grin>.

Uhhh, this website is up to its old tricks..."Server Not Found" when you hit the Save button.

Tell you what: Can you send me the purchase price, and I'll discuss with the client. They are in discussions this morning to switch away from Zilog completely on the next board rev.

Interesting thread.
Here is an idea :
Since John has what sounds like a very solid testing environment, and a 99% solid product,
and only needs incremental changes, Zilog could supply the source for free, in return for John
later giving back the revised code and test report ?

John
Were you successful in getting the source code you were looking for?