🚀 go-pugleaf

On Tue, 13 Apr 1999 18:55:32 +0100, Tom Bird
<hamster@nospam.demon.co.uk> wrote:

[SNIP]
>
>My Gigabyte TX2 can go right down to 2.0v.

   But can it do an I/O voltage of less than 3.3V which is what these
chips require?  That would be fairly unusual.

>
>>1) The chips require the BF2 line - which was never used on most TX
>>   boards.  It is normal on super-socket 7 boards though.
>
>What's BF2?

   See my other posting.

>
>>2) The chips are TCP style - not PGA, so won't fit a socket 7.
>
>What's TCP?  Is that where the pins are all round the edge?

   Sort of - see my other posting.  (You may be thinking of yet
another system, where the chip pins are 'wrapped' round the chip and
inserted into a special socket.  TCP is not like this - it is
soldered.)

   Regards,
          Harry.