a classiccmp electronics project?

From: Dwight K. Elvey <dwight.elvey_at_amd.com>
Date: Thu Jul 29 20:14:41 2004

>From: "Jay West" <jwest_at_classiccmp.org>

>
>Tony wrote...
>> I would doubt it. Those old fusible-link PROMs were actually quite fast
>> with access times of <50ns in many cases. And the designs depended on it.
>Surely that's easy to get around. Upon power up - or when a reset button is
>pushed, the device reads the image from EEprom and places it into SRAM,
>which is what is actually accessed. Isn't SRAM fast enough?
>
>Jay West
>
>

Hi Jay
 Yes, those CMOS RAM's used for cache that were in the
narrow packages were quite fast enough. As I stated in
a previous post.
Dwight
Received on Thu Jul 29 2004 - 20:14:41 BST