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06/14/07 20:56
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#140800 - What was I thinking...!
Responding to: ???'s previous message
Thank you, Jan & Erik, for the eye opening insight. I'm not sure where I ever got the idea that I could just throw a 64k Eprom into the mix and expect to use the entire space as data (lookup storage). Rather than carve up my pretty little SBC I think I'm going to try scaling back the number of fonts to fit in the back of the ram chip. I had thought about using I2C EEproms but I have the nasty suspicion that they may be a tad slow, especially since none of the accesses will be sequential.
In light of Erik's suggestion what I also may wind up doing is installing a Dallas 87C520, which has 64K of flash, execute from MCU and map the majority of code memory for the font tables. Also, the boost in speed can't hurt, either.

Hal

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TopicAuthorDate
8052.com SBC Eprom problem            01/01/70 00:00      
   hummm....            01/01/70 00:00      
   staring at the papers and the board...            01/01/70 00:00      
      without any knowledge of the specific            01/01/70 00:00      
      What was I thinking...!            01/01/70 00:00      
         the good, the bad and the ugly            01/01/70 00:00      
            Semi-cute?            01/01/70 00:00      
         flash?            01/01/70 00:00      
            You are right, I Meant DS89C450            01/01/70 00:00      
   That's why you should review the schematic            01/01/70 00:00      

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