Fanout is one reason, or to interface between fabrication technologies or
differing supply potentials.
David
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?
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