From: bryan@philips.oz.au (Bryan Ryan)
Organization: Philips Public Telecommunications Systems, Melbourne, Australia
Subject: Re: RAMs &ROMs with ALE latches (for 8051's)
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spp@zabriskie.berkeley.edu (Steve Pope) writes:

>In article <1qg98sINNokf@sheoak.ucnv.edu.au> jeff@redgum.ucnv.edu.au (j. pethybridge) writes:
>>	Hello again,
>> I asked this a year ago, but i am still looking.
>> I am getting sick of having to use a HC373 

>Jeff, just use the damned 373.   Sure, there are oddball
>latched memory chips, but do you really want to use them?

>Sorry if I'm pedantic but: design your circuit using
>reasonably available parts, and move on to more important
>problems.

We're looking at a series of chips by WSI, the PSD3xx series. They have
_mega_ address decoding logic on them, various ROM sizes (upto 1Mbit),
various RAM sizes (upto 16 K), and 19 I/O ports which can be chip select
lines, I/O or the buffered address lines.

Cute chip, 44 pin PLCC package.

Second sourcing may be a problem though :-(


Bryan Ryan, VK3TKX
Melbourne, Australia
bryan@philips.oz.au