9 Dec
2006
9 Dec
'06
8:45 a.m.
On 9 Dec 2006 at 9:02, joseph c lang wrote:
Actually My first draft was a 555. By the time all the
requirements were met,
the component count had gotten out of hand. 7420,555,7438,handfull
of descretes... a single 20 pin package a crystal and a transistor didn't
seem like overkill.
And it would handle the creeping feature bloat My projects suffer from ;^)
I happened to mention this to a customer yesterday who sells
computerized scales and the like. His comment was that a PIC was
very competitive with a 555, when one considered the external
discrete component count and glue--although he admitted that a number
of his products still use lots of 555s.
Cheers,
Chuck