CURRENT PROTOTYPE STATUS (SEC 64MHz 68000)

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Re: V2.5 BOOSTER CURRENT PROTOTYPE STATUS

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rpineau wrote: Fri Feb 02, 2018 10:17 pm tested on both STE and MSTE
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Tiny update.. PCB's finally arrived :thumbup: Need to do a order to mouser and get the ATF chip and some other bits next...

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Small update.. Parts now ordered for this.. I'm going to ship the three boards and parts to a place in the UK for assembly as I just do not have time to do it. So hopefully in a few days time I can get the boards back and actually start working on the firmware.

Just as a re-cap, this board is the 68SEC000 test board, so I can see what the maximum speed of the CPU is. I am hoping to get it running at 50-64Mhz.

Even if the CPU cannot manage much more than the 68HC000 PLCC CPU, I will likely still use the SEC simply due to it is smaller, and a proper SMT package. With all the problems I am having with sockets, I have no choice but to move to a direct soldered part anyway. So moving to the 68SEC000 CPU is basically a good move anyway.
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PCBs finally arrived... next to find time to finish firmware and test it.. but likely will finish the plug in STE booster first...

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Finally cleared my table.. Now to work on the firmware..

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So something amiss, anyone any ideas whats going on here ?

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I tried removing AVEC from my code just to see what happens, and diag-cart says autovector error.. so that much be working... but still no idea whats going on with the DMA errors unless some sort of bus grant issue :shrug:
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$FFFFFC00 and $FFFFFC02 are adresses for Keyboard ACIA .. so there might be something going on with VPA/VMA there.
The 2 other one are code on the cartridge port.
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Its odd, because I see activity on VMA, but not VPA or AVEC ... but VMA shouldn't go low without VPA being low to start with ?!
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Is the E clock running properly ?
AVEC should definitely do something on interrupt from the keyboard. But if we can't write to the ACIA it probably doesn't trigger interrupt yet.
So it's really around VMA/VPA
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rpineau wrote: Mon May 21, 2018 9:08 pm Is the E clock running properly ?
Looks good on scope..


rpineau wrote: Mon May 21, 2018 9:08 pm AVEC should definitely do something on interrupt from the keyboard. But if we can't write to the ACIA it probably doesn't trigger interrupt yet.
So it's really around VMA/VPA
No idea, I keep trying things, but no luck..

If I keep pressing reset, I see VMA pulse low.. though I half recall it does pulse more than VPA.. will have to re-read my notes tomorrow..

VPA I have trouble seeing any pulses.. but thats generated from GLUE anyway...

I don't get why diag-cart says DMA time out.. has nothing to do with CPU really :roll:
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