Having ploughed through the internet and any number of data sheets, I keep bouncing off the 16L8 currently supplied by Rochester Industries. https://www.digikey.co.uk/en/pro...
It looks as if a couple of those would free up a dozen or so other chips, but it looks like it was designed in the stone age: it works at nominal TTL voltages and eats the thick end of a hundred milliamps .
What I'd really love is a similarly simple device, but using HC logic levels (so 2-6v power) and HC currents (so tens or hundreds of microamps) and in an ideal world in a SOIC package. If it only costs a quid or so that's even better...
I'm blowed if I can find such a thing. I suspect it's in the realm of 'things Mr Barnacle finds useful but nobody else does' along with my other pet peeve: parallel memory with a serial interface...
Any thoughts?
Neil