22 May
2009
22 May
'09
8:23 p.m.
On Thu, 21 May 2009, bfranchuk at jetnet.ab.ca wrote:
>>> Grumbles at the lack of 9 bit wide ram
chips ... No matter how
are 9 bit SIMMs becoming hard to find??
I suspect if I dig hard I can find 9 bit wide static
ram of some kind,
but with the low cost of 32KBx8 ram I can waste 7 out of 8 bits.
Would it make sense to use 3, thereby giving you 24 bit wide?
You could either use 18 of the 24, or implement some sort of ECC with the
"extra" 6 bits