| ??? 10/22/11 16:22 Read: times | #184318 - a lot of convenient special-purpose devices have gone away Responding to: ???'s previous message | 
| and it's likely that this is one of them.  Once PAL's became popular, a number of devices like this one, and, in fact, a lot of "family logic" gradually fell into disuse.  Even the PAL's have pretty well gone away now, and what one sees is a big chip, often with the MCU built into it, right along with those special functions.  Using the special function IC's seldom had the sorts of side-effects occasionally encountered when building the big FPGA, though.
 What it takes to keep manufacturers producing such devices is volume, and, with the advent of large field-programmable logic devices, the functions disappeared into them, rather than remaining obvious on the PCB. I miss a few of them, myself. RE | 
| Topic | Author | Date | 
| something like a TCA 3727 | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| hard to get? | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Cheers | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| a lot of convenient special-purpose devices have gone away | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Trouble is.. | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| And.... | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| I know what you mean ... | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| UDN2916? | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| well | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| So? | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| despite my relative blindness ... | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Dropped components | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Prices vary but .. | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Oh, if only! | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Yeah, and some folks want to use 0402 or 0201 parts | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Smaller than 0603 | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Difficult as it is ...   | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| UDN2916 on last time buy | 01/01/70 00:00 | 



