On Tuesday 04 April 2006 05:47, you wrote:
On Tue, 4 Apr 2006, [ISO-8859-15] Sebastian Br?ckner
wrote:
KD11-HA M7270 LSI-11/2 CPU
(16-bit addressing only, and use of BC1,BD1,
BE1,BF1 for purposes other than BDAL18-21)
What did the M7270 use these pins for? I didn't find any manuals or
schematics for the this CPU yet, only for the LSI-11. Could someone point
me into the right direction?
According to the "microcomputer processor handbook" (edition 1979-80) the
backplane signal names for BC1 to BH1 are called SSPARE4 to SSPARE8
(special spare) and are *not* bussed. The KD11-HA signal names on these
pins are:
BC1 SCLK3H
BD1 SWMIB18H
BE1 SWMIB19H
BF1 SWMIB20H
BH1 SWMIB21H
Christian
The signals control several flip-flops on the M7270 as follows:
BC1 phase 3 clock, active high - enable for the decoding of the other bits
BH1 high to enable decoding
BD1 BE1 BF1
000 not used
001 clear init FF
010 bus timeout FF clear
011 not used
100 init FF set
101 set FDIN FF
110 power fail FF clear
111 event FF clear
Since the 4 lines have a large number ( 10 ) of unused combinations, and
are driven directly by the microcode, they could have any number
of uses if you're runing writable control store.
Can an M7270 do that?
If you're running the standard MCROMS they don't have much value
outside the CPU.
joe lang