Tony Duell wrote:
I remmeebr a conversation I had some yeas ago THegroup
was deisnging a
device which involved some high-speed analiguye and ECL circuity and thus
had ot go on a 16 layer, arefull-made (read : mega-expensive) PCB. There
was one bit of the desing that handn't been completed, It came down to
producing a logic signal from 3 other logic signals (I think all F TTL).
Thing is, they wanteto get the PCB off to the manufcaturer ASAP, without
finising that part of the desigbn.
I glanced at the problem and said 'That's trivial. I can do it in one
IC'. One of the others's replied 'A PROM? A PAL? are they fast enough? Do
we have the programmer for them'. 'No', I said, 'Just a plain TTL chip
with no programming needed'.
OK, what was the chip I suggested? (if did get used, BTW, and worked
prefectly).
Was it a multiplexer? With some jumpers to select the desired logic
function?
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John Honniball
coredump at gifford.co.uk