Why doesn't everyone use battery backed SRAM for retro projects and breadboarding?
Why doesn't everyone use battery backed SRAM for retro projects and breadboarding?
Looking through my regular SRAM chips, most have a standby mode with just a few micro amps of current draw and function down to 2 volts. So, a perfect match for one of these and a coin cell. That makes programming from scratch easy, and one can iterate without a ROM programmer. Once a subroutine is verified, it can be transferred to an EEPROM. Then there is no fussing with paged erasure, not that erasure is a big deal. It just requires the subroutine and a 12 volt source.
Anyways, the battery backed SRAM on the board is the plan for tomorrow. I might have expanded the real estate a bit today, and built a custom breadboard for the 68k Hershey bar. I don't know if I will mess with the 68k stuff as all chips I have are NMOS, and I think that means they cannot single step through code. Reading up on the Z80, that thing is really really nice compared to the 6502.