>     The only problem with those is that we need 28 IO ports.  It would be
> easy enough (for me, the software guy) to just use two of them but now the
> board is layed out and there would be resistane to changing it if we could
> just find the right part somewhere.  It may be that we end up having to use
> these parts and just redo the board.

They put a part in the PCB layout without checking availability first?  Shame,
shame.

Maybe this should just be a lesson to them to do more homework before
selecting a component.  And, incidentally, why are you (the software guy)
doing the legwork on a piece of hardware?

Mike H.

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