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17 years ago

MAX7000 power and Slew rate control

Hi All, I have having problems with a simple 15 bit counter being un-reliable - various bits in the top byte appear to change as the bottom byte crosses the 0x00 / 0xFF boundary. This soun...
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17 years ago

I like the elegance and simplicity of your solution. It also explains why all of the (synchronous) test harnesses that I wrote for the part in Verilog all worked fine, yet the real-world failed.

On an unrelated subject, do you know if there are any global switches for the MAX7k to put the whole part into low(er) power, slower slew rate mode ? I am currently configuring every pin as non-turbo which is a bit tedious.

Regards, Mark