Generally faster rise times are better unless you're worried about ringing.
It will enhance your setup and hold times and thus make your card more
reliable on the end of the bus...
--Chuck
At 08:29 PM 6/28/01 -0700, you wrote:
I was tempted to use a pair of DS3862 octal bus
transceivers since
I want an internal tri-state bus on the card, but it looks as if
the rise and fall times on the drivers are just a little fast
(nominal 9ns compared to a minimum of 10ns according to the qbus spec).