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AFAIK the Z80 hasn't been publicly reverse-engineered to transistor level completely, it's mostly some important pieces (those that Ken Sherriff did, mentioned in the article) but apparently that was enough...

Notable that one of its direct predecessors, the Intel 8080, was reverse-engineered to transistor level:

https://zeptobars.com/en/read/KR580VM80A-intel-i8080-verilog...



AFAIK Jeri Ellsworth did the same to the 6502.

https://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/20/technology/a-toy-with-a-s...

Can't find it in that article, but IIRC she looked at scans of the silicon to figure out exactly what the chips in a C64 do.




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