| ??? 09/13/02 20:07 Read: times |
#29149 - 8255 - great building block. |
Though I can understand the arguments against the old 8255, it has to be said that for a drop in solution to parallel I/O there isn't anything to match it OFF THE SHELF. Yes, I KNOW that we can design a CPLD that can do the same job, but why bother ? I2C isn't anything like fast enough for a lot of I/O tasks, neither is SPI, there are NO off the shelf SPI I/O devices as flexible as the 8255.
I'd like to see VHDL code for an identical function to the 8255. Anyone actually done it ? |



