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- From: gat@forsight.jpl.nasa.gov (Erann Gat)
- Subject: Re: Miniboard 2.0 & NMI F68HC11
- Message-ID: <1992Aug28.163912.7108@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov>
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- Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 16:39:12 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug28.135419.3725@hubcap.clemson.edu> dawill@hubcap.clemson.edu (david williams) writes:
-
- [Talking about the Maxim MAX233 RS232 level converter chip]
-
- > As a matter of fact, I've used this critter before, and it works
- >very well. I can't say enough about Maxim's products: they do what
- >they're supposted to, first time.
-
- I have an interesting testimonial to the MAX233. I used one to connect
- a New Micros 6811 board to my Macintosh. I had been using it for several
- months and it worked like a charm. Then one day I decided to make a
- second MAX233 board, so I traced out the wiring on my original (since
- I had lost my schematic). To my amazement I found that the chip's Vcc
- pin was disconnected. Not just a broken connection; there was no wire
- there at all. The thing had been working beautifully for months
- WITHOUT POWER! I doff my hat to the Maxim designers.
-
- BTW: Re the discussion of whether there should have been a MAX233 on
- the miniboard: I think it makes more sense to build a separate little
- board with a MAX233 on it. Consider: there are two ways in which the
- 6811 asynchronous serial port can be used, to talk to a terminal or
- to talk to other 6811's. When 6811's talk to each other they usually
- don't need to level-shift, and presumably one only uses one terminal
- at a time. A Max233 chip consumes quite a bit of real estate (on the
- scale of the miniboard, anyway). I think it's a defensible design.
-
- Erann Gat
- gat@robotics.jpl.nasa.gov
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