Unknown 64pin ceramic TRW Chip...

[Chuck Guzis]

ISTR one of the early rags (Kilobaud? Microsystems?) describing a 
board using one of these things, a 16x16 multiplier by TRW (MPY-16?), 
circa 1977-78 or so.  ISTR the thing was really power hungry.

Cheers,
Chuck


On 7 Sep 2008 at 18:11, steve stutman wrote:

> Agreed.
> 
> I used one of these in early '80s.
> 
> PN was something like TDC 1010 or 1020?
> 
> TRW made the good mults, AD made the good flash A/Ds
> 
> Steve
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Peter C. Wallace wrote:
> > On Wed, 3 Oct 2007, Curt @ Atari Museum wrote:
> >
> >> Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2007 18:43:46 -0400
> >> From: "Curt @ Atari Museum" <curt at atarimuseum.com>
> >> Reply-To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
> >>     <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
> >> To: General Discussion:  On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts 
> >> <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
> >>     ;
> >> Subject: Unknown 64pin ceramic TRW Chip...
> >>
> >> I have an S-100 experimenters board with a ceramic 64pin chip on it 
> >> that has a black cap over it and all it says is TRW.    Anyone have 
> >> any idea what the heck this might be, there are no other markings 
> >> what so ever.
> >>
> >>
> >> Curt
> >>
> >>
> >
> > Quite likely a combinatorial multiplier, less likely a flash A-D.
> >
> >
> > Peter Wallace
> >
>