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Post #175 by trag
Source Forum68kMLA
CategoryHardware
Post DateTue, 11 Nov 2014 - 05:45
Original URLhttps://68kmla.org/bb/threads/designing-a-portable-ram-card.314/
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, and its keeping on power-off so that means at least I designed the RAM card properly, and its booting system 7.1 really fast off RAM. 
Does the Portable assert that Standby signal that you mentioned?   It may not be worth the power savings, but the SRAM can maintain contents on 1V or something like that (mentioned in the datasheet).  It would require another voltage regulator and a three more CPLD pins and maybe a couple of switching transistors, but you could set the thing up to supply 1V to the RAM when the Standby signal is asserted.  That would reduce the power consumption while the machine is off.  Might also  need a largish capacitor to smooth over the transition between power supplies.

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