> As far as design :
>
> People are forgetting one thing : application notes. Most vendors
> have application notes that give a working sample implementation using
> their chip. For instance, National Semi's AN-479 has full schematics,
> a materials list, and a PAL program (for the PAL that does shared memory
> arbiting and address decode) for an ISA 8390 board (AUI / thinnet,
> jumper selectable). If you were to go with a shared memory 8390
> implementation you could take this design, and write a new PAL program....
Right. We should go this way. Why invest the wheel again and again ?
> In any case, the analog side (what scares the non-EE's among us)
> with the pulse transformers, etc would allready be done for you.
Otherwise this would be the most complicated part :-)
Andy
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