Hi everyone! Today I received the last component needed to get my EPROM/RAM board V1 together. My plan is to use it as a RAM board for my 6502 v1 CPU card. I brought the card together, configured the switches and... nothing. The card did not work, so I started investigating and found something very interesting: I'll describe it referencing the schematics for the 6502 v1 board found here (http://s100computers.com/My%20System%20Pages/6502%20Board/Printing%20S100_6502-sch1.pdf) and for the EPROM board here (http://s100computers.com/My%20System%20Pages/PROM%20Board/Printing%20S100_EPROM-sch%20(V2%20Final).pdf).
The EPROM/RAM board decodes the IO_REQUEST signal ORring between sOUT, sINP and sINTA (see on the middle-left on the schematics). IO_REQUEST (when low) is then used to generate the CS* signals for the onboard ram/flash/whatever. Much to my surprise, i noticed IO_REQUEST came out as always high! I traced the problem to U1B (a 74LS32) doing an OR between the output of U1A (made using sOUT e sINP, which pulses high and low correctly) and sINTA. sINTA is not generated by anything on my system (as you can see in the 6502 v1 schematics it is not connected) and the LS32 doesn't like this: the output of the OR operation is always true, which I think is wrong and causing the board not to work correctly My first idea was to add a jumper on the proto-zone of the 6502 CPU card, giving the option to tie sINTA line to ground, but I'm afraid I might have misunderstood the purpose of the circuit and risk doing any damage (Yep, still a newbie :-) ). Any idea/opinion/advice? Bye! Fabio -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "N8VEM-S100" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
