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From: jeremi@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca (William Jeremiah)
Subject: Re: SGS Thompson H Bridges... Where?
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Cliff Lum (Cliff_Lum@mindlink.bc.ca) wrote:
: I am having the same problem myself, SGS L293 are hard to get without a
: minimum order. But I have located two equivalents or better from TI.
: the TI L293D NE is a pin for pin compatible with the SGS L293D.
: the TI SN 754410 is an improved version that can handle 1 amp instead of 600

Is it pin compatible?  That would be great wouldn't it?

: ma for the L293's.

: While i'm mentioning other chips has anyone tried a MC68HC811A8 instead of

Is this pin compatible.  That would be undeniably perfect wouldn't it?

: the MC68HC811E2. The 68HC811A8 has 8K + 512 of EEprom while the 11E2 chip has

Now that is a useful amnount of memory!

: only 2K of eeprom. So more memory for better programs using the 68HC811A8
: (note: this is not the 68HC11A8, this is from the M68hc11 ref manual  REV 3)


: hope that helps

Jerry
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