Is a description of your IDE interface available somewhere?
regards,
Wouter.


> I have said before that I did an IDE disk interface with a PIC16C64 and I
> believe that a SIMM can be driven in the same way. The only point is,
that
> most beginners jump into a design head on without computing anything. A
> serial RAM or two and a small PIC may end up being cheaper than doing it
> all from scratch with a SIMM and will beat the SIMM at power
requirements,
> data retention and more.
>
> Peter