Re: Resending: Repairing a SFD-1001 (8250/LP, 8050, 4040, 3040, 2040)

From: Gerrit Heitsch <gerrit_at_laosinh.s.bawue.de>
Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2011 19:45:01 +0200
Message-ID: <4E41721D.2030808@laosinh.s.bawue.de>
On 08/09/2011 07:11 PM, Gene Buckle wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Aug 2011, Gerrit Heitsch wrote:
>
>> On 08/09/2011 08:36 AM, Wolfgang Moser wrote:
>>
>>> But
>>> this would require also that someone else finds a source for 6532 chips.
>>> If the 6530 chips are impossible to source nowadys, the 6532 ones are at
>>> least very hard to find in new and factory packaged condition.
>>
>> Shouldn't you be able tp pull them from old Atari 2600 systems? They
>> might not be labeled 6532, but as far as I know they are just that.
>>
>> Not that I advocate pulling them from working systems, there should be
>> enough broken ones out there where the 6532 is still good.
>>
> Could the operation of a 6532 be duplicated using a PIC or AVR in a
> similar fashion to how the SwinSID was done?

Possibly... But the 6532 is not a mixed signal chip like the SID so it 
could be done in one of those programmable logic devices and be a 100% 
replacement. From what I could find the FPGA2600 project does have a 
VHDL core for the 6532. I don't know if it's complete since the 2600 
didn't use all the features of the chip (no IRQs).

  Gerrit


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