Hi All,
I am trying to read data at 1 Mhz but process later at a slower pace. Ideally, I would like to find a component like a large FIFO that can ingest data at 1 Mhz and then output at a slower pace for example 100 Khz per byte. I did some googling it seems like a clock domain crossing problem. However, I am not an electronics expert and I was wondering if anyone would like to propose a chip that is very cheap that is capable of doing this. I dont want to use SRAM as I dont have sufficient IO pins. Also I am reluctant to use a chip that costs more than 5$ a piece.
Conceptually, I think of this chip as a FIFO that has two clock inputs, one for writing and one for reading. The write clock can be a fast one like 1 Mhz and the read one can be a slow one like 1 Khz or some sort of setting that allows the same clock at different frequency to be used. The FIFO I have now is AL422B, but it has a minimum refresh fequency of 1 Mhz and I am looking for something that can cope with a slower clock for reading or has a lower frequency refresh cycle. Perhaps and more non-volatile nature of FIFO that does not need a refresh might also work.
Thanks for reading my message and hopefully I can find a suitable chip.