Re: Unknown holes in the motherboard of the CBM610

From: Francesco Messineo <francesco.messineo_at_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2018 19:08:59 +0200
Message-ID: <CAESs-_xBZzL1o-Dmk9LFLWfOUN9X5VJuA9f8dbY0e4zz8CO6oQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 7:05 PM, Mia Magnusson <mia@plea.se> wrote:
> Den Mon, 30 Apr 2018 15:00:41 +0200 skrev MichaƂ Pleban
> <lists@michau.name>:
>> Hello!
>>
>> Mia Magnusson wrote:
>>
>> > My intention is to find some kind of suitable software for timing
>> > diagrams (I was first thinking about project management software,
>> > but there seems to be software especially made for thins purpose).
>>
>> Why not simply attaching a logic analyzer to various signals and
>> measure what the real hardware does?
>
> Everything is made of standard 74xx circuits and standard DRAM's
> (except the CPU and the CRTC) and it would be really nice to know that
> the maximum and minimum delays is for each part of the circuit. (The
> 6525's doesen't count in this discussion as their timing isn't critical
> to understanding how the complicated CPU-RAM-Refresh-Coprocessor stuff
> works).
>
> I wounder if anyone who designed or in general worked with the hardware
> on theese machines at Commodore are still alive and remembers some
> stuff? For example it would be nice to know why some signals are called
> PUP1 and PUP2.

look if they're static pulled up to some resistor to Vcc... PullUP1, PullUP2...
Just guessing, but I use a similar naming scheme when I design my own boards.

Frank
Received on 2018-04-30 20:01:33

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