Joe declared on Wednesday 03 December 2003 03:09 pm:
> I stopped by a scrap place and picked up an interesting looking
> board. It has a number of AM29818 "Diagnostic Resisters" on it. I
> wasn't familar with them so I looked them up on the net and found
> this
> <http://www.national.com/pf/54/54ACT818.html> for an equivelent part.
> Is there anybody here familar with these that would care to tell me
> what they are in plain english?
>
> Joe
They look to be a 8-bit register (or edge-triggered latch) that you can
'talk to' and read their input/change their latched value using a
bit-serial connection (the SDI/SDO lines).
-- Pat
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Received on Wed Dec 03 2003 - 18:07:04 GMT