Re: PET 2001 6550 RAM R/W?

From: Gerrit Heitsch <gerrit_at_laosinh.s.bawue.de>
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2017 19:08:44 +0100
Message-ID: <3affeef9-4620-bc79-fa4c-6859ce8b1480@laosinh.s.bawue.de>
On 11/24/2017 07:00 PM, Francesco Messineo wrote:
> Hi all,
> I'm going to repair a PET 2001, the board with 6540 ROMs and 6550 RAMs.
> I'm still in the phase of studying the schematics to understand this
> particular design.
> Now, I'm not really getting why the R/W signal to all the RAMs,
> including the two video RAMs is ANDed with the /SELE signal, can
> anyone shed some light here?

/SELE? If that means PHI2, then it's just what you usually need to do in 
a 6502 system. R/W can only gow LOW, meaning a write cycle, as long as 
PHI2 is HIGH. If you don't do it this way, you will corrupt the data in RAM.


> On the 2001N board, the RAM R/W signal is just the CPU's signal plus
> one buffer  and two inversions.

Those are DRAMs if I'm right. They don't care about R/W as soon as /RAS 
goes HIGH.

  Gerrit


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