"Richard Erlacher" <edick(a)idcomm.com> wrote:
The 9216 and 9229 are external clock recovery circuits
tailored for the 179x
series, but can be replaced with a PAL. The 8-pin 9216 is pretty handy, but
doesn't handle the write-precompensation which the 20-pin (?) 9229 does.
I've often thought that a PAL or small CPLD would do the job. Has anyone
written the appropriate state machine or equations?