At 12:38 PM 4/5/2007, Tony Duell wrote:
The chip is a 16 pin DIL package marked with the
HP house-number
1858-0054. That's not in my equivalents list. The chip seems to have been
made by RCA, and tracing the connections to it show that 2 of the pins
are grounded, but none of them go to any power line. I susepct it's a
transistor array, therefore (HP1585-xxxx numbers tend to be transistor
arrays too).
Yes, the Google shows an Aligent document naming it as a transistor
array, but alas no pin-out. It looks like Harris/Intersil and RCA
made them, too.
Thanks to all who replied..
I got a private e-mail pointing me to an Agilent schematic that used that
device. Said scehamtic gave me the pinout and the functionality -- it's 5
independant transistors, 3 NPN and 2 PNP. The remaining connection (16
pin DIL package, 5*3 connections to the tranistors) is the substrate.
Most of my guesses had been correct. I'd identified emitters and
collectors of the 2 NPN transistors that were used, and, actually, I'd
found the bases too. The 3 unusued-in-the-9816 connections were the 3rd
NPN transsitor. But I'd not worked out the PNP transistors. Partly
because I'd made the stupid assumption that they'd all be NPN and
secondly because the parasitic diodes were confusing my measurements.
Anyway, having got a pinout, I looked at Digchip and did a search for
transistor arrays. There was one RCA number that was described as a mixed
NPN/PNP transistor array, so I looked at the datasheet. The pinout matches.
So, the answer to my original question is CA3096. It may be a selected
one (although I doubt it, at least ont in the 9816, the reset circuit
doesn't look that critical). But it's the same pinout, etc.
Thanks again to all who helped
-tony