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From: caveh@csl.sri.com (Caveh Jalali)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: RAM controller for 68k?
Keywords: 68000, DRAM
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Date: 25 Aug 90 08:08:12 GMT
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>In article <407@horizon.COM> bergan@horizon.COM (Charles Bergan) writes:
> I am going to be building a single board computer ... and was wondering
> if anyone had any recommendations for easy to use dynamic RAM controllers
> for the 68000.
>

since you seem to be willing to live with wait states, you might consider
doing most of the work in software.  executing a list of 512 nop
instructions every 8ms (if memory serves correctly) is plenty.
add a pair of (address) multiplexors and you're in business.

worked for me.

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