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- From: jimc@tau-ceti.isc-br.com (Jim Cathey)
- Newsgroups: sci.electronics
- Subject: Re: microcontrollers
- Keywords: sizes? External Memory Capability
- Message-ID: <2820@tau-ceti.isc-br.com>
- Date: 12 Nov 92 18:52:15 GMT
- References: <11NOV199219370593@rigel.tamu.edu>
- Organization: ISC - Bunker Ramo, Spokane, WA
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- In article <11NOV199219370593@rigel.tamu.edu> rahhelp@rigel.tamu.edu (Ronald A. Huizar) writes:
- >planning to use the MC68HC811E2 can only address about 64K of external
- >...
- >about 3 Meg of memeory. To much for the E2. So I know that the
-
- Ever heard of bank-switching? Your massive data needs can be easily
- handled this way, because you don't need simultaneous access to all
- that data. Your application is specific (and simple) enough that you
- can afford to call a subroutine to fetch each sample from RAM that's
- not directly in your address space. No problem. A similar technique was
- used in many external print spoolers, which had 8048's in them. These
- only can directly address something like 2K of memory (my memory's
- fading fast), but these used clever bit-banging techniques on DRAMs
- connected to I/O ports to store hundreds of K of data.
-
- Engineering Rule #3b: Work smart, not hard.
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