24 Jun
2016
24 Jun
'16
6:28 p.m.
On 6/24/2016 4:36 PM, Fritz Mueller wrote:
Hi All,
In bringing up and debugging my PDP 11/45, I found that one of my GRA (M8101)
spares has a failed ALU subsidiary ROM. It's a pretty standard little 32x8
ROM in a 16-pin DIP, and the truth table is in the 11/45 print set.
I wonder what the replacement options are for parts like these? In particular,
given the 30ns micro-cycle on the KB11-A, and the fact that the propagation
time for the ALU downstream of this is roughly 20ns on its own, I'd be worried
that an off-the-shelf bipolar PROM might be too slow here.
I'm still a little slow on reading the microcode flows, so its not clear to me
exactly how many micro-cycles there are on the critical path for the E-class
instructions where this ROM is used. Maybe its not an issue.
Anybody every try replacing one of these with a bipolar PROM? Any other
suggestions for how to repair parts like these?
cheers,
--FritzM.
Almost 100% certainty the part already there is a small bipolar TTL PROM. What
would you think it otherwise might be?
For a lot of these logic replacement applications DEC used the open collector
version, but it might be tristate variation. Check schematic.
Also, the microcycle on the 11/45 (and 11/70 for that matter, basically the same
design) is 150ns, not 30ns.
There are various clock timing pulses (tp1, tp2, etc) but the datapath / control
unit microcycle is 150ns.
Don