What PLD were the Atari chips? ricoh.. ?
What PLD were the Atari chips? ricoh.. ?
I am sure some point the Atari chips were identified as being one of the ricoh PLDs...Can anyone remember the part number or has the datasheet ? I did have it at some point but I cannot find it
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Re: What PLD were the Atari chips? ricoh.. ?
There were several manufacturers of ASICs for Atari. With respect to Ricoh, these are not PLDs per se, rather gate arrays, the 5GH series: https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_r ... /page/n101
Re: What PLD were the Atari chips? ricoh.. ?
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Re: What PLD were the Atari chips? ricoh.. ?
Would you know any other manufactures of the chips ?
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Re: What PLD were the Atari chips? ricoh.. ?
From my list, only for the 16/32 bit line of computers. (There were more manufacturers for the 8 bit computers and the game consoles.)
- IMP (a lot of chips)
- National Semiconductor (Blitter, some chips in the TT)
- ST, RCA (other manufacturers of the Blitter)
- LSI Logic, Toshiba (chips in the Falcon)
- Universal Semiconductor (tentative, possible maker of the -20 chips in the earliest STs)
Why do you ask?
- IMP (a lot of chips)
- National Semiconductor (Blitter, some chips in the TT)
- ST, RCA (other manufacturers of the Blitter)
- LSI Logic, Toshiba (chips in the Falcon)
- Universal Semiconductor (tentative, possible maker of the -20 chips in the earliest STs)
Why do you ask?
Re: What PLD were the Atari chips? ricoh.. ?
Another pointless endeavour probably. Though was probing to see if any chips have any chance of being cloned/read or even getting the netlist made for them. I talked about this before, I think its possible, but costs are high as I found before. I'm really just trying to see if there are any alternatives than going to FPGA.
Its just so annoying as the Atari chipset is basically all I want and they will overclock, but with some silly issues.. but if those wakestates were fixed and a few other tweaks, they would be fine to use "as is" . Not simple or cheap, but I just want to see if there are any options whatsoever.
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Re: What PLD were the Atari chips? ricoh.. ?
These are all either gate arrays or fully custom chips. They cannot be "read" like, e.g., a GAL or a CPLD. One can decapsulate them and given enough money (or crazy skills like ijor has) one can reverse-engineer the netlist from there.
But even given a netlist that might look like this (snippet of an original Atari ASIC netlist):
... what would you do with it? This is not directly synthesizable in an FPGA.
But even given a netlist that might look like this (snippet of an original Atari ASIC netlist):
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(P4006 I2 P4006-O P4007-O
(P4008 I2 P4008-O P4006-O
(P4009 FF2 P4009-Q P4009-XQ CLK+ P4009-XQ CLK- RESET-
(P4010 FF2 P4010-Q P4010-XQ P4009-XQ P4010-XQ P4009-Q RESET-
(P4011 FF2 P4011-Q P4011-XQ P4010-XQ P4011-XQ P4010-Q RESET-
(P4012 FF2 P4012-Q P4012-XQ P4011-XQ P4012-XQ P4011-Q RESET-
(P4013 SAB P4013-O P4012-Q P4011-Q P4002-Q6 P4002-XQ6
(P4014 SAB P4014-O P4013-O P4015-O P4002-Q7 P4002-XQ7
(P4016 I2 P4016-O P4014-O
(P4015 SAB P4015-O P4010-Q P4009-Q P4002-Q6 P4002-XQ6
(P4017 SAB P4017-O P4016-O SCLK1B- CLKSC1B+ CLKSC1B-
(P4018 TS3 P4018-ON P4018-OP CLK1BEN+ P4017-O
Re: What PLD were the Atari chips? ricoh.. ?
Yeah, If the netlist could be converted to a logic block, that could be copied over the Quartus like I was planning with the blitter. It would help to have a proper schematic of it, but I have no idea whats possible.
There is the STE combel where I think you recovered its design, possible that might be a better direction to look into.
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