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Reading X8 and X16 Standard TSOP

08/13/2012 11:33 AM

I know that it is possible to read an X8 standard NAND TSOP by soldering wires from an XD or Smart Media card reader's pins to the corresponding pins on the flash chip. This only works for X8 chips for which the pinout is here:

How would this be done for X16 chips? The X16 chips have 16 data lines and the card reader only has 8.

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Re: Reading X8 and X16 standard TSOP

08/13/2012 6:02 PM

You need an 8bit 2 way changeover switch with 16 input bits. This changes from bits 0 to 7 to output to giving bits 8 to 16 to output. It could be just 2 banks of 8 way DIL switches.

You have to read the memory once, move all the switches over then read it again.

Then you need a processing routine to combine the 8 bit bytes into 16 bit words.

You can use electronic switches - it used to be done to read 8 bit memory bytes into the standard parallel printer port of an IBM PC, which had only 4 or 5 inputs - data was moved in two 4 bit nibbles. Modern PCs with bidirectional 8 bit printer ports can do it a byte at a time.

It depends how often and how quickly you want to do this.

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