Re: Strange 8255 behavior

From: Segher Boessenkool <segher_at_kernel.crashing.org>
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2018 14:46:07 -0500
Message-ID: <20180610194607.GF27520@gate.crashing.org>
On Sun, Jun 10, 2018 at 06:42:02PM +0200, Gerrit Heitsch wrote:
> On 06/10/2018 05:36 PM, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> >http://siliconpr0n.org/map/mos/6526/mz_mit20x/
> >
> >The ports are the low half of the pins (PA on the left, PB on the right).
> >
> >(I have a .xcf if anyone is interested, marked quite a few signals, but
> >I haven't done the port stuff very much.  It's about 400MB).
> 
> That looks quite different from the one I posted. Looks like MOS did 
> quite a bit of redesign between the NMOS 6526 and the HMOS 8521 (which 
> still got labeled 6526). Might explain the little differences in the way 
> they behave.

No, this is an actual 6526r4.  This is an 8521r1:

http://oms.wmhost.com/misc/MOS_6526A_CIA.jpg

(and this is an 8520r4, the CIA used in amigas; it has a different TOD
clock, and as you can see it's different from 8521 in other ways, too.
But clearly 8520 and 8521  are more related.  The lineage is almost
certainly 6526 -> 8520 -> 8521:

http://siliconpr0n.org/map/mos/8520/mz_mit20x/ ).


Segher
Received on 2018-06-10 22:01:40

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