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Re: SRAM for MuP21 development systems


On Wed, 16 Nov 1994, Jeff Fox wrote:

> >Does the system include SRAM?
> >If not, does it allow for the user to add SRAM easily?

> No. Neither of the systems boards that Offete offers have sockets for
> 3 8kx8 15ns srams.  

Hmmm. This is a bad thing. Was it, that the price of the board would be 
too high?

> Dr. Ting did create a jumper to run some out of
> the DRAM socket for testing.

Can one do the same gymnastics at home?

May be one should take care to shut dow the video generation while 
calculating. Imagine the reaction of the system. You tell it to do a 
calculation and it closes its "eye" for a while to think faster :-)

> The new board is only two layer.  The first was 4 layer.  I don't
> know if 2 layer will be ok for full speed sram operation.  I would
> like to see a board with 3 8kx8 15ns sram sockets too.

I would also.

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