19 Dec
2012
19 Dec
'12
11:25 a.m.
I have a lot of equipment made by a company here in Irvine / Newport
Beach, Hilevel technology. The prime business they were in in the 2900
time frame and the product they built their reputation and continuing
business on was rom simulation for 2900 designs, and also customizable
debug engines, so you could buy a rom simulator, and also load it and
have some amount of capability to do things like set breakpoints on
certain events / test points.
If anyone were to want some, I have a lot of them I acquired when they
were going very cheap. They can be mixed and matched into rom
simulators should you want vintage equipment to play with on your
vintage equipment.
They now make simulators for people who want to emulate / test asics,
etc., sort of an natural progression of the same sort of tool.
Jim
On 12/19/2012 9:48 AM, Richard wrote:
In article <alpine.DEB.2.02.1212191217350.2730 at
linuxserv.home>,
Christian Corti <cc at informatik.uni-stuttgart.de> writes:
I'd like to understand the machine and its
"Super-6800" processor and
therefore I'm looking for a copy of the service manual (BTW it's a 4052
and not a 4052A; the firmware level is 4) for both the 4052 and the 4611.
As I
understand it, it's a re-implementation of the 6800 using AMD
29xx bit slice parts. There is quite a bit of documentation on the
AMD 29xx bit slice family of processor parts. There is documentation
on bitsavers: <http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/amd/_dataBooks/>
A popular book was "Bit-Slice Microprocessor Design" by John Mick and
Jim Brick aka "Mick and Brick". This book is basically a collection
of the AMD application notes that shows you how to build a complete
microprocessor usign the AMD 2900 series parts.
ftp.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pub/cm/tektronix/tek4052
The images from the ROM patch ICs, PALs and microcode ROMs will follow
soon.
Are these different from the ones stored currently on bitsavers?
<http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/bits/Tektronix/405x/>