On Monday 16 June 2008 21:40, David Kane wrote:
Fanout is one reason, or to interface between
fabrication technologies or
differing supply potentials.
David
I don't anticipate any difference in supply potentials, and was hoping to
avoid digging through the datasheets worrying about fanout, if perhaps some
of the BTDT folks in here would know offhand. :-)
On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 11:01 AM, Roy J. Tellason
<rtellason at verizon.net>
wrote:
> I'm thinking about building a z80 board, with varying amounts of
"stuff"
> attached, with RAM and ROM that may be NMOS or CMOS, and some
> indeterminate
> number of Z80-family and compatible peripheral chips.
>
> My question is this: At what point do you _need_ to have address and
> data bus
> buffer chips?
>
> --
> Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and
> ablest -- form of life in this section of space, a critter that can
> be killed but can't be tamed. --Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet
Masters"
> -
> Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies.
> --James
> M Dakin
--
Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and
ablest -- form of life in this section of space, ?a critter that can
be killed but can't be tamed. ?--Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters"
-
Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James
M Dakin