On 04/23/2016 04:34 PM, Brent Hilpert wrote:
Well, he may have been worried about availability, or possibly the part going obsolete. Those are other issues that a designer might be concerned about, as well as reliability.The interesting thing was that there seemed to be a distrust of LSI chips early on. I recall working on a project around 1973, where the lead engineer preferred to design his own UART from SSI rather than use one of the new UART chips.
Jon
