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In an effort to understand saccadic eye movements and their rela (cid: 173) tion to visual attention and other forms of eye movements, we-in collaboration with a number of other laboratories-are carry (cid: 173) ing out a large-scale effort to design and build a complete primate oculomotor system using analog CMOS VLSI technology. Using this technology, a low power, compact, multi-chip system has been built which works in real-time using real-world visual inputs. We describe in this paper the performance of an early version of such a system including a 1-D array of photoreceptors mimicking the retina, a circuit computing the mean location of activity represent (cid: 173) ing the superior colliculus, a saccadic burst generator, and a one degree-of-freedom rotational platform which models the dynamic properties of the primate oculomotor plant.