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For speculative fun, what’s the fastest rate such a design could operate at? Are optical equivalent circuits reasonably possible (or some such)?
by ctdonath 6y ago
For speculative fun, what’s the fastest rate such a design could operate at? Are optical equivalent circuits reasonably possible (or some such)?
- CyberRabbi 6y agoOld EPROMS are not very fast. 200 to 250ns access times were common back then, which would limit your clock rate to about 4Mhz or so. Of course you could use a modern NOR flash compatible pinout, which are about 70ns (~14MHz).
- simcop2387 6y agoThis is why a lot of times you speed up embedded systems by loading the eeprom or flash data to ram, to avoid all the waiting by amortizing it at start up. A lot of times yiu can queue up the next but while waiting on the initial request, meaning you pay for a single wait and change on average in the end.
- CyberRabbi 6y agoVery true, classic technique