qualhiveldorf Posted August 11, 2004 Report Share Posted August 11, 2004 Some of you may have heard of a product called the Ramdrive; for those who don't know, it is a computer device which uses sdram as a harddrive which provides volitile BUT extremely fast data storage medium. I wish to improve upon this idea by using Non-Volitile SRAM which provides memory speeds slower than that of volitile ram yet much quicker than a harddrive. I recieved a 1 megabyte NVSRAM chip from Texas Instruments, Model #: bq4016MC-70 which is manufactured by Benchmarq as far as the chip label says. So my problem is that I need some kind of controller chip that will allow me to transfer data from IDE, SATA, or SCSI (I would prefer IDE, because I would have to buy a SATA or SCSI card if i were to use either of those connectors). The chip itself has a 36 pin dip format so soldering will be a snap (thank god). The Controller chip should run on 5vdc or 12vdc so that I won't have to provide power step -up or step-down. I am quite new to this type of electronics in general (I am more used to modern computers) so if you could please speak in my language. Thanks in advance for your help Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harsh Posted August 11, 2004 Report Share Posted August 11, 2004 have you ever heard of a USB drive ?pretty neat little packages..http://www.usbmall.com/products/viewitem.asp?idProduct=203&linkid=2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qualhiveldorf Posted August 11, 2004 Author Report Share Posted August 11, 2004 thats not the point, I just want to build something myself. I realize that the usb drive would be easier but I want to learn something not just buy it off the shelf. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trigger Posted August 12, 2004 Report Share Posted August 12, 2004 I think build your own IDE interface from scratch isn;t that easy...... may be you can consider to use some interfacing chip ..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qualhiveldorf Posted August 12, 2004 Author Report Share Posted August 12, 2004 What I'm looking for is an interfacing chip. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MP Posted August 13, 2004 Report Share Posted August 13, 2004 Qual, if you are considering a microcontroller, you might look at the Application Notes area of the mcselec.com website. There are examples of code to access hard drives, SRAM and SD Card with the AVR chip using Basic code.MP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harsh Posted August 13, 2004 Report Share Posted August 13, 2004 thats not the point, I just want to build something myself. I realize that the usb drive would be easier but I want to learn something not just buy it off the shelf.I hear ya . Nothing wrong with that .!!. ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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