I'm not positive, but I don't think any of the earlier DIL 8390 series chips
contained internal buffer RAM. This would be a rather large hassle to deal
with.

As far as soldering 100 pin SMT devices. Not easy for my old eyes ;-)

Bob Ammerman
RAm Systems


(contract development of high performance, high function, low-level
sofftware)
----- Original Message -----
From: Alan B. Pearce <A.B.Pearce@RL.AC.UK>
To: <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2000 5:29 AM
Subject: Re: [PIC]: Ethernet controller


> National Semiconductor used to make the 8390 series of Ethernet chips in
DIL
> packages. These are used on NE2000 controllers. Later versions come in
surface
> mount versions, but the earlier ones were DIL. I do not know if the DIL
ones are
> still available.
>
> Surface mount should not be a problem to solder. There have been a number
of
> references in this list to pages showing how to do it.
>
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