Using an ICL7660 to feed -5VDC to 4116 DRAMs?

[Roy J. Tellason]

On Wednesday 02 July 2008 21:13, Scanning wrote:
> According to the Motorola datasheet - " All voltages referenced to Vss (
> 0V) and Vbb ( -5 Volts ) must be applied before and removed after other
> supply voltages ".

Ah.  I'd recalled that as being the case with some chips,  but wasn't 
remembering whether that applied to the 4116 in particular...

Nice to have it confirmed.

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