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B1
See Mech. Drawings Section
DESCRIPTION
The DS1217A is a nonvolatile RAM designed for porta-
ble applications requiring a rugged and durable pack-
age. The nonvolatile cartridge is available in densities
ranging from 2K x 8 to 32K x 8 in 8K byte increments. A
card edge connector is required for connection to a host
system. A standard 30-pin connector can be used for di-
rect mount to a printed circuit board. Alternatively, re-
mote mounting can be accomplished with a 28-conduc-
tor ribbon cable terminated with a 28-pin DIP plug. The
remote method can be used to retrofit existing systems
that have JEDEC 28-pin bytewide memory sites.
The DS1217A cartridge has a lifetime energy source to
retain data and circuitry needed to automatically protect
memory contents. Reading and writing the memory lo-
cations is the same as using conventional static RAM. If
the user wants to convert from read/write memory to
read-only memory, a manual switch is provided to un-
conditionally protect memory contents.
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