Western Design Center

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The Western Design Center, Inc.

Company type	Private
Industry	Electronics
Founded	1978; 46 years ago (1978) in Mesa, Arizona, United States
Founder	Bill Mensch
Headquarters	Mesa, Arizona , United States
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Bill Mensch
Products	Microprocessors, microcontrollers, support devices
Owner	Bill Mensch
Website	wdc65xx.com www.westerndesigncenter.com

The Western Design Center (WDC), located in Mesa, Arizona, is a company which develops intellectual property for, and licenses manufacture of, MOS Technology 65xx based microprocessors, microcontrollers (µCs), and related support devices. WDC was founded in 1978 by a former MOS Technology employee and coholder of the MOS Technology 6502 patent, Bill Mensch.^[1]

Beyond discrete devices, WDC offers device designs in the form of semiconductor intellectual property cores (IP cores) to use inside other chips such as application-specific integrated circuit (ASICs), and provides ASIC and embedded systems consulting services^[2] revolving around their processor designs. WDC also produces C compilers, assembler/linker packages, simulators, development–evaluation printed circuit boards,^[3] and in-circuit emulators for their processors.