Back in September 2025 we posted about Anders Nielsen's PhaseLoom, an SDR based on the MOS Technology 6502 chip - the chip behind the early age of home computing, powering iconic systems like the Apple I & II, Commodore 64, Atari, and Nintendo Entertainment System.

Anders has now moved on and created PhaseLatch, which combines the 6502 with a modern ADC that can be memory-mapped directly onto the 6502's data bus. Although achieving the theoretical max ADC bandwidth of 20 MSPS is not possible with the underpowered 6502, Ander's notes that when combined with some external RAM he was still able to perform some DSP on the 6502 such as tone detection.

The entire project is open source on GitHub, and Anders sells pre-made boards for experimentation.