From: Jim Thompson
Newsgroups: sci.electronics.basics,sci.electronics,alt.electronics,sci.electronics.components,sci.electronics.design
Subject: Re: ? Binary to BCD conversion chip ?
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"Yi-Zen Chu; Yiren Qu" <""y i z e n \"@ u c l i n k 4 .
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Entitled: "? Binary to BCD conversion chip ?",
Wrote the following:
|Hello everyone,
|
|Does anyone know if there's any IC chip commercially available that can
|convert a 4 (or 8 bit) number to BCD? Where can I buy it? I tried
|looking up on the Net but only found 74185, which seemed to be discontinued?
|
|Thanks for the help!
|
|Yi-Zen
|
|PS. Sorry for the cross-posting; I'm not sure where this question should
|be addressed.
4-bit is trivial, requiring around 10 gates and 3 inverters. 8-bit
would be a royal bitch ;-)
See http://www.puz.com/sw/karnaugh/index.htm for a nice tool (KMAP445)
to work out the logic.
There is also http://www.patdouble.com/switchmin/switchmin.htm but
this link is down right now.
SwitchMin can handle up to *32 inputs*, but is much more difficult to
work with than KMAP (at least for us analog types ;-)
...Jim Thompson
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