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| obiwanjacobi:
Looking for a cheap option to count 18 bits but with output enable (tri-state). Have looked at the 74x590 (more than 10,= euro a pop @ Farnell) 74x593 not available. At Ali and ebay this kind of chip is either not available or pricey as well. Context: I am trying to make an address counter for a TTL VGA project and need to be able to access the video memory this counter addresses from the CPU bus. I figured if I could get a counter that I could tri-state I would not need any muxes (or addition dirvers with OE) and would save a couple of precious nanoseconds. I run the pixel clock at 25.175 Mhz and have little less than 40ns to get a pixel out, 15ns are taken by the SRAM I plan to use. I have the usual counters in stock (74x161 and 74x393) as well as a butt load of 245's... One option I have considered is using two GAL 22V10's to build the counter. That would actually be a pretty nice fit (also have them in stock - and already use them in the design). |
| rstofer:
You seem to have some expensive solutions to a $5 problem. 5 chips, $1/each => $5 if I read it right. Maybe a little more for qty 1 but you gave the qty 10 price. Here's my approach: My time is billed at $100/hour, even for hobby work. A proper $5/solution can be substituted with any other as long as the parts cost + the labor cost is cheaper. So, even if I had alternate, but useless, chips on hand and they were totally free, I couldn't spend more than 3 minutes thinking about it before I just ordered the proper parts. Using this labor rate is why I don't do plumbing under my sink while standing on my head. I hire somebody for that kind of thing. Same with the landscape service. And other stuff... Unless I can do it cheaper at my internal billing rate, I won't do it at all. Sometimes I don't even care what the outside cost is, I don't climb ladders at my age. Time has a price, pick a number. |
| oPossum:
--- Quote from: obiwanjacobi on February 12, 2020, 06:25:41 pm ---Have looked at the 74x590 (more than 10,= euro a pop @ Farnell) 74x593 not available. --- End quote --- 74HC590 is ~$0.50. Making it work with TTL/NMOS is usually just a matter of some pull-up resistors. |
| obiwanjacobi:
Did not think to search for HC parts... :-// Thanks @oPossum. The 590 has registers to store the count bits - which complicates things a bit. Can I tie the register- and counter-clocks together to sort of bypass the registers...? Or will the (considerable) delay times make that unstable? Or does anybody know any other counters without registers but with tri-state outputs? {I've always wondered how other people do their parts selection in the design stage...? And how do you know where to choose from?} --- Quote from: rstofer on February 12, 2020, 10:10:38 pm ---You seem to have some expensive solutions to a $5 problem. 5 chips, $1/each => $5 if I read it right. Maybe a little more for qty 1 but you gave the qty 10 price. --- End quote --- I can give you a screen shot of the Farnell page but you probably bill me for looking at it ;D |
| cj:
The 74F579 is synchronous 8bit up/down counter with bi-directional 8bit interface so it has tri-state output. I haven't seen these in other technologies though so it might be hard to find. CJ |
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