At 09:25 AM 3/24/97 +0100, you wrote:
>At 18:40 21.03.97 +0000, you wrote:
>>        Are there any SPI RAMs width some Kbytes ? If not, is any
>>"friendly" way to use normal RAMs width the PIC (i mean, using not to much
>>pins) ?
>
>Antonio,
>
>the DALLAS DS1280 is a 3-Wire to Bytewide Converter Chip. It allows
>serial access up to 512KB of memory. It converts the serial data to
>the standard JEDEC memory configuration, A0 - A18, D0 - D7, and
>the usual control signals.

Wolfram,

Have you priced these?  They go for $8.99 each in > 100 pieces!  I'm
looking at an application using about 500 pieces per year.

Anybody know of anything !less expensive! but similar that will handle
small (8K or so) SRAMs?  I2C or SPI or MicroWire, not EEPROM (too slow).

Thanks.

Andy

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