[sdiy] Another new hard to find part....

[James Patchell]

In a way, yes.  Because of the fact that it is actually going to be a 
module.  And one good reason to use an adder to implement counters is that, 
if I want to have a counter that can increment by either 1 or 3, or say 
even increment by 1, decrement by 2, it is fairly easy to do with an 
adder.  If all I needed was just a plain up/down counter, then something 
like an HC169 would fit the bill (except , you can no longer get 74HC169's 
either :-).....or I guess, that should be :-(


At 05:17 PM 7/5/2004 -0400, you wrote:
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "James Patchell" <patchell at cox.net>
>
>
> > Never thought about the CD4008...but....
> >
> > It seems to have even more limited availability than the 74HC283....
>
><blush> Oops! I had meant to check on availability (since that's the problem
>we're trying to deal with). Dang.
>
>Do you actually use the addition functions in your sequencer, or would an
>up/down counter suffice?
>--
>john

         -Jim
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