Re: Arcade board

[mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)]

Bill Garber wrote:

>Nope, not confused at all, in fact, that is exactly what I said.
>a "GLU" is a single chip that performs the function of sometimes
>an entire card full of logic gates. For example, the CPLD on the
>CFFA could be called a "GLU".
>
>: 'Glue logic' has imo allways been the term for all the
>extraneous logic
>: needed to connect the more integrated stuff to each other.
>Buffers and
>: latches are generally not seen as glue logic, although they are
>also needed
>: to help stuff work with each other.
>
>Although in the A2 and some of the Commodore worlds that term
>is wide-spread, I had never heard it used to describe "Logic"
>in the sense of many chips. We always just called it "Logic".

I didn't say GLU, I said "glue".

"Glue" chips or "glue" logic is the generic term used for
decades by logic designers to describe the SSI chips
(gates, inverters, and such) needed to connect more
highly integrated chips together.

Bogosity factor = 0.

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