From: Warner Losh
Do those chips have ROM numbers on them?
I have updated the:
https://gunkies.org/wiki/KD11-E_CPU
https://gunkies.org/wiki/KD11-EA_CPU
articles with the DEC part numbers for the i) microcode and ii) instruction
decode PROms.
That's not all the PROMs on the Control card - there are effing bazillions of
the damned things (I suspect they used them to reduce the amount of random
logic, so the CPU'd fit on two boards) - but it's most of them.
I have yet to triple-check them, so there might still be transcription error
or two.
From: Rod Smallwood
I am sure somebody will come up with the actual images
either the
original files or derived from what we have.
I wouldn't be too sure of that; silence so far. I have reached out to Mike
Douglas, to ask where the microcode dump on DeRamp came from: perhaps the
originator can help with the missing bits. (Although perhaps I should ask Al
K; BitSavers also has the dump, and it's older, so perhaps that copy came
from the originator.)
We have narrowed the problem down.
Its the instruction decode ROM's that are the issue.
The images of those are whats needed.
All of them? Or is just one failed?
I'm wondering if you've just had a single one lose a bit or two; that's
somewhat common in old PROMs. The chip you reported as failing (E111) almost
certainly couldn't have taken out an instruction decode PROM, it's nowhere
near them.
I ask because we have absolutely nothing on those PROM's contents. With the
microcode PROMs, we at least have the contents in symbolic form (see pg. 15
of MP00082; alas, we don't seem to have the KD11-EA equivalent of Table 7-15
from EK-FP11A-TM-002), but for all the instruction
decode PROMs - nada.
Absolutely nothing.
But if they're _mostly_ there, with the partial contents, and a description
of the failure mode (e.g. 'SETC doesn't set the C bit'), we might be able to
work out what bit got dropped.
Failing that, someone's going to have to volunteer to unsolder a set, and
read them out - at least, I assume that's what would have to be done. Perhaps
a logic analyzer could be attached to an instruction decode ROMwhile the CPU
ran diagnostics, and eventually a complete readout of the contents
accumulated.
Noel