On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 02:53:12PM -0400, Matthew Brush wrote:
> These are the RAM chips that I salvaged from an old
> video card:
>
> http://www.jameco.com/Jameco/Products/ProdDS/93374.pdf
>
> I was thinking I could put 2 chips' address inputs on
> the high byte of the IDE data bus, and then put each
> of their 4 IO pins on the low/high 4 bits of the low
> byte of the IDE databus.  This way I believe I could
> write two chips simultaneously (so 8bits at a time)
> and each chip would use the same memory addresses.  I
> think this would be pretty easy for reading/writing to
> the RAM.
>
> What do you think?

DRAM. Much tougher to handle than SRAM. To be honest if you have to ask
the question "What do you think?" then the answer is a firm NO!

Get static RAM. it'll simplify your project tremendously.

BAJ

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