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10/22/11 16:22
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#184318 - a lot of convenient special-purpose devices have gone away
Responding to: ???'s previous message
and it's likely that this is one of them. Once PAL's became popular, a number of devices like this one, and, in fact, a lot of "family logic" gradually fell into disuse. Even the PAL's have pretty well gone away now, and what one sees is a big chip, often with the MCU built into it, right along with those special functions. Using the special function IC's seldom had the sorts of side-effects occasionally encountered when building the big FPGA, though.

What it takes to keep manufacturers producing such devices is volume, and, with the advent of large field-programmable logic devices, the functions disappeared into them, rather than remaining obvious on the PCB. I miss a few of them, myself.

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something like a TCA 3727            01/01/70 00:00      
   hard to get?            01/01/70 00:00      
      Cheers            01/01/70 00:00      
         a lot of convenient special-purpose devices have gone away            01/01/70 00:00      
            Trouble is..            01/01/70 00:00      
               And....            01/01/70 00:00      
                  I know what you mean ...            01/01/70 00:00      
   UDN2916?            01/01/70 00:00      
      well            01/01/70 00:00      
         So?            01/01/70 00:00      
            despite my relative blindness ...            01/01/70 00:00      
               Dropped components            01/01/70 00:00      
                  Prices vary but ..            01/01/70 00:00      
                     Oh, if only!            01/01/70 00:00      
                  Yeah, and some folks want to use 0402 or 0201 parts            01/01/70 00:00      
            Smaller than 0603            01/01/70 00:00      
               Difficult as it is ...            01/01/70 00:00      
      UDN2916 on last time buy            01/01/70 00:00      

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