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- From: kolstad@cae.wisc.edu (Joel Kolstad)
- Newsgroups: sci.electronics
- Subject: Differentiating a 2716 and 2764
- Message-ID: <1992Jul23.011017.27028@doug.cae.wisc.edu>
- Date: 23 Jul 92 06:10:16 GMT
- Organization: U of Wisconsin-Madison College of Engineering
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- Hi,
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- I'd like to know how an EPROM programmer can go about differentiating between
- having a 2716 and 2764 inserted into it. The only thing I can think of
- off hand is this: Since in the "waiting" state no power is applied to the
- EPROM, the programmer chould connect a high resistance to Vcc of a 2716.
- Now, it checks the voltage at Vcc right before going into programming mode,
- where full power is made availiable to Vcc. If it finds a voltage less than
- the voltage bus connected to the resistor, it decides that a 2716 is
- inserted -- the power consumption of the 2716 acts as a voltage divider with
- the first resistor. If the voltage is the bus voltage, it's a 2764 since
- Vcc on a 2716 maps to an unconnected pin on a 2764. Although this sounds
- complex, I can see that it's really not that hard in hardware.
-
- So... that's my method. Does anyone else have a good method to do this?
- Thanks!
-
- ---Joel Kolstad
-