24 Apr
2016
24 Apr
'16
12:10 a.m.
On 04/23/2016 04:34 PM, Brent Hilpert wrote:
> The interesting thing was that there seemed to be a distrust of LSI
> chips early on. I recall working on a project around 1973, where the
> lead engineer preferred to design his own UART from SSI rather than use
> one of the new UART chips.
>
Well, he may have been worried about availability, or
possibly the part going obsolete.
Those are other issues that a designer might be concerned
about, as well as reliability.
Jon