2 Nov
2001
2 Nov
'01
2:40 a.m.
Ah yes but, the CMOS ram would cause one problem for the
design... Common IO. The 74189/289 had seperate IO unless
I've suffered a major brain cramp.
Allison
-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Erlacher <edick(a)idcomm.com>
To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Date: Friday, November 02, 2001 11:28 AM
Subject: Re: classiccmp-digest V1 #761
The '289's are inverting, though tristate, just
like the '189's. TI made a
'219
which was a noninverting tristate version of this same
sort and pinout.
ISTR
that there was yet another part, albeit not of the
normal 74xxx sort, that
was a
non-inverting version as well, but I can't, for the
life of me, rememberit
(senior moment). These days, it's both cheaper and easier (faster, too) to
use
a CMOS ram of considerably larger size.
Dick
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ben Franchuk" <bfranchuk(a)jetnet.ab.ca>
To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2001 5:17 PM
Subject: Re: classiccmp-digest V1 #761
> ajp166 wrote:
> >
> > Those parts were never cheap!
> >
> > You can also use 74289s for the '189s. The '382s are an improved
version
> > of the '182. A note, if you can tolerate
a slower ALU you can omit the
> > '382s
> > and just use ripple carry.
>
> If the 74289's are the non inverting 16x4 rams I would use them. I plan
> to use 74ls382's (the ripple carry alu's).
>
> > A sub for 74189s is some of the byte wide cache rams from an old
386/486
> > PC as the faster ones were faster than the
TTL 74189! You dont have to
use
> the full
space of the cache ram though having it would make afor an
interesting
register
array.
Can't do that for three reasons
1) I am use a 16 x 12 ram ( 3 chips ) on two boards for a 8 x 24
register array.
2) I am using the 486 cache chips as main memory in my FPGA prototype
32k x 12 bits.:)
3) This was a TTL design on paper of what a computer designed in the
early 1980's
could have been like. That rules out 2901 bit slices.
Allison
As it stands today I have a FPGA (
pat pat pat ) that is configured to
have a similar
layout as the ttl design and this lets me play around with the
configuration. Mind you a
larger TTL CPU with lights and switches is more impressive. If you like
lights
and switches here is a neat link http://www.angelfire.com/scifi/B205/
'to the Bat Cave'
Ben Franchuk.
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