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Article #2335A few questions on microcontrollers etc.
From: Tony Duell
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1992 21:12
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1992 21:12
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I have a few somewhat unrelated questions. 1) I have a dowty Quattro modem. It contains the PIC7001 microcontroller, which is described as TMS7000 series pin-compatable, romless by microchip corp. If I replace it with a TMS77C82, the modem no longer works. But it fails in a a way which suggests that the chips are similar - the right patern of lights appears on the front, but it ignores the switches. It also seems to ignore the serial port, but checking with a logic probe on the microcontroller pins makes me think that TxD has somehow moved to another pin. BTW, the chip is strapped to disable internal ROM, and there is a 32K rom, 8K ram on the modem PCB. Is there any way I can use a TMS77C82 here (the PIC7001 is no longer made, and I would like to have a back up if it ever failed) 2) Greenweld ( a surplus dealer in England) are selling 'Zonphone terminals' at the moment. They were part of a portable 'phone system, and contain 4 microporcessors, several gate arrays, etc. I am hacking about inside one, and wonder if anyone can identify either of the following chips? TMS77C01 (seems to be linked to a couple of TMS77C82 microcontrollers, but is not a processor itself ) CLA5531 (Plessey - may be another gate array - anyone know for sure) -tony 'PDP11 Hacker' Duell ard@siva.bris.ac.uk
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Newsgroups: sci.electronics Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!mnemosyne.cs.du.edu!nyx!aduell From: aduell@nyx.cs.du.edu (Tony Duell) Subject: A few questions on microcontrollers etc. Message-ID: <1992Aug10.211253.8728@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> Sender: usenet@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu (netnews admin account) Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix @ U. of Denver Math/CS dept. Date: Mon, 10 Aug 92 21:12:53 GMT Lines: 27