Do
you still enjoy to compile with speed of a snail?
Wish
to surf the Web in quick and
enjoyable manner?
Calculate
pictures under POV, creating a DTP and Graphics in proper high speed?
Run
suitably applications as one to encode MP3 or a console Java under Mint?
Wish
to keep your software library in its entirety?
You
still have a hard time abandoning you favorite environment of your Falcon with
all its charm? Why leaving his sound system, DSP and all the connectivity ?
(SCSI, MIDI, Joystick ports, etc...)
Your
search is over, an accelerator of
you dreams is here. New and fastest accelerator ever , seize this opportunity.
No
reason to retire your old Falcon, breath a new spark of life to your
Falcon and get the most powerful TOS computer ever !
CT60
CT60 fitted on Falcon motherboad.
FEATURES
(MB=MegaBytes)
- Socketed
68060 (with FPU & PMMU) at 66 MHz (upgradable
to 100 MHz).
- Bus CT60 at 66
MHz (upgradable to 100
MHz) : SDRAM & 060 BUS
accesses.
- SDRAM
PC100/133 (CL2) at 66
MHz (upgradable to 100 MHz) with BURST accesses & page HIT on open
banks.
- 1 SDRAM PC-100/133 socket for 64 MB to 512 MB.
- FLASH
of 1MB with BOOT, 060 INIT, TOS4 + patchs. Can be easely updated !
- Switch to commute between the 060 and the 030 of the Falcon.
- 100%
Falcon 030 mode available. The 68882 is available with the
030 mode.
- Easy fitting WITHOUT SOLDERS in the original Falcon
case, without the Falcon power
supply that is replaced by an external standard
ATX power supply (or into an ATX tower).
- 060 Bus Slot for adding a daughter card (SuperVidel, PCI/USB, PowerPC,
...).
-
OPTION to boost the Falcon mainboard with 6 wires to be soldered
: DSP & VIDEL at 50 MHz, bus at 25 MHz.
PROCESSOR
The 68060, like the 68040, integrates a
FPU (Coprocessor) that is really more powerfull than the old
68882.
The
060 is a dream and the first reason is its wonderfull computing
power regarding the previous ones in the 68K familly :
| CPU |
MIPS |
FACTOR |
| 68060
@ 100 MHz (CT60) |
147 |
25,5 |
| 68060
@ 75 MHz (Motorola 2001) |
110 |
19.1 |
| 68060
@ 66 MHz (CT60) |
96.8 |
16.8 |
| 68060
@ 59 MHz (HADES60) |
86.5 |
15.0 |
| 68040
@ 40 MHz (AB40 / Motorola 2001) |
44 |
7.6 |
| 68040
@ 32 MHz (HADES40 & AB40) |
35.2 |
6.1 |
| 68040
@ 25 MHz (MILAN40) |
27.5 |
4.8 |
| 68030
@ 50 MHz (CT2) |
18 |
3.1 |
| 68030
@ 32 MHz (TT030) |
11.5 |
2.0 |
| 68030
@ 16 MHz (Falcon / Motorola 2001) |
5.76 |
1.0 |
RAM
Upper
40 MHz, the SDRAM is accessed with 1 cycle instead of 2 with the EDO.
The RAM of the CT60 is equivalent with the TT-Ram (same address :
$01000000).
CT60
is the first TOS product with SDRAM !
| PRODUCT |
BUS |
RAM |
READ |
WRITE |
FACTOR |
| CT60 (060@100MHz)
|
100
MHz |
SDRAM |
104.4
MB/s |
102.8
MB/s |
22.9 - 18.7 |
| CT60 (060@
66MHz)
|
66 MHz |
SDRAM |
68.4 MB/s |
67.4 MB/s |
15.0
- 12.3 |
| HADES60
(060@59MHz) |
29.5 MHz |
EDO |
43.4 MB/s |
34.1 MB/s |
9.5
- 6.2 |
| MILAN40
(040@25MHz)
|
25 MHz |
EDO |
35.7 MB/s |
21.5 MB/s |
7.8
- 3.9 |
| CT2b
|
50 MHz |
EDO |
32.4 MB/s |
38.7 MB/s |
7.1
- 7.0 |
| AB40 |
32 MHz |
FPM |
34.6 MB/s |
17.0 MB/s |
7.6
- 3.1 |
| MEDUSA
T40 |
16 MHz |
FPM |
20.0 MB/s |
21.9 MB/s |
4.4
- 4.0 |
| TT030
TT-RAM |
16 MHz |
FPM |
12.6 MB/s |
15.6 MB/s |
2.8
- 2.8 |
| TT030
ST-RAM |
16 MHz |
FPM |
7.9 MB/s |
7.9 MB/s |
1.7
- 1.4 |
| FALCON+MAGNUM |
16 MHz |
FPM |
5.7 MB/s |
6.9 MB/s |
1.25
- 1.25 |
| FALCON (VGA16c) |
16 MHz |
FPM |
4.55 MB/s |
5.5 MB/s |
1.00
|
(MB=MegaBytes)
- ALL TESTS REALIZED WITH NEMBENCH 2.1
FITTING
: SOLDERS FREE !
CT60
is PLUG'N PLAY !
The
previous accelerator boards always required you cut and solder on
the motherboard, but now thanks to a revolutionnary hardware
design, the mainboard is not touched by the fitting.
From a base Falcon,
there are ANY SOLDERS to fit
the CT60 !
In this case, the Falcon mainboard is not
boosted.
The
CT60 can work with a boosted Falcon
mainboard (except with CT2), but it is recommended to remove the mb booster
and fit the CT60 with solders...
OVERCLOCKING
THE FALCON MAINBOARD !
It
is possible to boost the Falcon mainboard from 16 to
25 MHz. In such
way, 6 wires have to be soldered on the mainboard and the DSP and VIDEL are clocked at
50 MHz... See the benchs !
A switch on the CT60 allows you to select between a 16 and a 25 MHz Falcon
bus...
060
BUS SLOT
CT60
is evolutive ! The 060 busses (Data, Add & Control) are
present on two HE13 Male connectors of 2x25 pins, giving a total
of 100 pins.
The
first add-on card that will be available is a SuperVidel card (100% Videl
compatible). A 3xPCI + USB board is planned too.
A
PPC card is too possible because the 060 SLOT has MASTER
capabilities, the arbitration with the 060 being already included
in the CT60 logic.
The software & hardware developers are
welcome.
FALCON
BUS CARDS
All Falcon
add-on cards are
compatible with the CT60 !
Eclipse,
Screen
Eyes, Expose & Nova can be used
with CT60 because CT60 don't modify the hardware of Falcon Bus
(no solders for the fitting).
The
CT60 don't give you a new Falcon bus slot because it is not
needed ! The method is simple : keep your Falcon daughter card on
the Falcon slot and solder two Male/Male HE13 connectors (2x15
& 2x25) on your 'old' card and plug the CT60 on it ! Sure, in
this configuration the keyboard is out of the Falcon case !
Fitting a
Nova Video card : http://www.tobiashagemann.de/ct60/ct60.html
ATX POWER
SUPPLY UNIT (PSU)
CT60
needs a voltage of 3.3V and 8 Amperes at least for the 060, the
SDRAM, the 060 BUS port, the logic and the buffers, and the
Falcon power supply would have been not sufficient in the case of
a 5V->3.3V expensive and poor rating voltage regulator on the CT60. An ATX
power supply is absolutely required to replace the Falcon power
supply and free the area for the CT60.
ATX
power supplies (ON/OFF AC switch is recommended) are
available anywhere. The smallest model is the one for the norme FLEX
ATX. This last one can be
put into the falcon origin case between the CT60 and the rear border with the
condition you cut a rectangular opening in the top plastic cover...
http://www.shuttle.com/new/product/barebone/specs_a.asp?A_id=23
There are too
some very small power supply units : http://www.mini-box.com/
ATX TOWER
The
CT60 is featured with a HE13 connector for the features found on
the front of a modern tower : POWER Led, IDE Led, RESET push
button, POWER push button. Plus (no more present on the ATX
tower) a NORMAL/TURBO switch you will have to fix somewhere and a 16/25 MHz
selector (if you fit the CT60 with solders).
With
the POWER switch, you can power on your falcon. You have to
understand that the ATX power supplies (in the major cases) have
no more 120/240V ON/OFF switch because they are drived by the
ACPI modern OS functions allowing to set the computer in a
'standby' or 'suspend' mode instead of turning OFF the power
supply. This low power setting is done by the power push button
of the tower, and the CT60 is managing this feature !
A
SLEEP function (SLP) was even added in the hardware and
manageable by a software (an ACC or a CPX) to 'sleep" the
machine (like the windows menu).
The
Power Led has a double utility managed by the CT60 : When the
power supply is ON, the led lighting normally, and when the power
supply is suspended (off in fact), the led is lighting weakly
indicating that your machine is OFF but stills connected to AC
power.
FALCON MODE
The
030 allows you to launch the old & rare software that cannot run on the
060 and to program the TOS in the CT60 FLASH (if the flash is crashed and you
cannot boot from 060 !).
The Flash can be accessed by the 030 and by the 060 and will
allow all developers to modify and personalize their machine as
they want.
The Falcon mode is your original Falcon and give you the
inssurance that software run like previously. The Coprocessor 68882 stills
usable with 030 (not with 060 sure !).
The small problems of the CT2, as the DSP INT, the FAST-Ram
mapped by the PMMU and the Bus Error under $400 were removed.
