Re: PET 2001 6550 RAM R/W?

From: Francesco Messineo <francesco.messineo_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2017 19:28:02 +0100
Message-ID: <CAESs-_w4OasnXg1qR6MpyAmiwAq8mVUBy60-Yyj0P2tC=7o-wQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, Nov 24, 2017 at 7:08 PM, Gerrit Heitsch
<gerrit@laosinh.s.bawue.de> wrote:
> 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.

PHI2 is PHI2 and goes to the corresponding pin of the 6550s. /SELE is
well... /SELE and
comes from a 4 to 16 decoder having A15..A12 as inputs. It should be
low when A15..A12 is 0xE.


Frank

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