8 Feb
2006
8 Feb
'06
10:02 a.m.
On Wed, 8 Feb 2006, vrs wrote:
If cost was not an object, something like the LTC1520 would be probably be OK
(Quad 18 ns 5V powered comparator) but its >$5.00 each.
Maybe some of the faster RS-485 receivers would do also...
Peter Wallace
Mesa Electronics
So... suppose
for a moment that there's no viable commercially
available part for making a bus transceiver with the proper
specifications.
Do any of us have enough Q-smarts to make a bus transceiver from
discrete transistors? (I don't.)
Do any of us have enough IC layout smarts to design a transceiver SSI
chip from raw transistor layouts on an IC? (I don't.)
Me either.
I'm just wondering about what happens when
the current candidate for
substitution also becomes unavailable...
I do think I could make a Q-bus receiver from a linear IC, like an
"ultra-fast" comparator, pretty easily.
Vince