Re: PET 2001 RAM question

From: Gerrit Heitsch <gerrit_at_laosinh.s.bawue.de>
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2018 18:06:00 +0100
Message-ID: <bf9d358e-983d-0c53-d75c-47faadfb3e86@laosinh.s.bawue.de>
On 01/31/2018 12:40 AM, smf wrote:
> On 30/01/2018 17:08, Gerrit Heitsch wrote:
>> Those are RAMs, they don't care if the address bus changes on the fly 
>> during a read cycle. But you don't want that during a write cycle.
>>
> Specifically they are static rams, where reads shouldn't be destructive. 
> dram on the other hand have destructive reads and changing the address 
> in the middle of an access will cause data to leak from one row to 
> another (and you end up with similar problems to VSP on the c64).

Yes, but the usual page mode DRAMs have a different control circuit 
anyway. They only care about the address lines on the HIGH->LOW 
transitions on /RAS and /CAS (and a few ns later). So you can connect 
them to the R/W-Line from the 6502 without adding PHI2.

  Gerrit



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