Hi!
I have been mostly lurking here, but I have been designing a DRAM board for the HP1000
A-Series, using a more
modern 72-pin SIMM. The A400 can adress 32Mb of parity ram so I use 17 bits on a 64Mb
SIMM. I have taken
inspiration from the original HP12103X boards and tried to keep away from esoteric parts.
The board prototype
works now and passes all tests, except that it gives a partity error in one of the first
addresses (ie 2,7,10
octal) when booted cold. If I then run a %T it works fine, and also if I reset by bringing
PON low.
I have tested with different SIMMs and the two different types I have tested both exhibit
the same issue. The
64Mb one has Samsung KM41C16000C chips.
As this is for hobby-use, it is not a big deal as the board works, otherwise, but it is
annoying.
If anyone here, and I expect there are several that have worked with DRAM chips, have any
suggestions on this
issue or the board in general?
Schematic is here:www.dalton.ax/hp1000/Memory/HP1000RAM_SIMM_Buffers_20241130.pdf
Yes. I have also written protocol decodes for the KingstWiz LA5032 32-bit LA to analyse
the HP memory bus if
anyone is interested.
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Med vänlig hälsning
Anders Gustafsson, ingenjör
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