7 Mar
2009
7 Mar
'09
11:20 a.m.
ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk wrote:
Right...
[...]
It sounds like what you need is a 6820 PIA data sheet (a 6821 one would do
as well). This shouldn't be hard to find.
These are actually in Vol. 2 of the service manual, at the back :). There seem to
be some useful tables at the start of the second volume of the
service manual saying what each of the port lines is linked to. Given that,
<slaps forehead> I didn't even see that section of the service
manual... just jumped straight to the schematics. More fool me... this
is quite helpful. from accessing that PIA.
From what I rememebr of the scheamtics, CS0 and CS1 are
connected to
buffered address lines, CS2/ comes from an active-low output of an
addresss decoder circuit. I think (based on the CS0 and CS1 wiring) that
the decoding is not 'complete'. Each PIA may appear at several addresses,
and there are some addresses that would actually select 2 PIAs
simultaneously. A very bad idea if you're reading from the PIA (both of
the selected PIAs would try to drive the data bus at the same time), but
proably OK for writing. I have no idea if Tektronix ever did this, but it
would appear you could write the same value to equivalent registers in 2
PIAs at the same time.
Something to think about if your simulator appears to be writing to PIAs
and non-standard addresses.
I think I've got most of it worked out now... just
not sure how to work
out where the control lines (CA1/2, CB1/2) fit into this whole thing.
They're controlled via each port's control register. IIRC the control
inputs generate interrupts, I've not looked to see how the interrupt
outputs of the PIAs are wired in the 4051.
-tony