Looking for an IDE simulator

[Warner Losh]

On Fri, Aug 28, 2020 at 1:14 PM David Bridgham via cctalk <
cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:

> On 8/28/20 1:10 PM, Paul Koning wrote:
>
> > SD is a packet based storage device on a serial interconnect, minimally
> one lane wide but it can also be four lanes (and that's typically how you
> use it).  Apparently it starts out in a SPI compatible mode, interesting.
> Also, SD requires a rather complex handshake at power up to get to the
> point where you can do I/O.
>
>
> I've implemented the SPI protocol in a little micro-coded engine on an
> FPGA and have considered upgrading it to the standard interface over one
> to four lanes except it looks like the SD licensing says I'm not
> supposed to do that without paying them a bunch of money.  And yeah, it
> took me a while to work through the initialization dance and it still
> fails from time to time (and from SD card to SD card).
>
> However ...
>
>
> > One oddity I remember from a decade ago is that it has a high speed mode
> where the clock speed is doubled.  That's not strange.  What's strange is
> that when you do this, the device switches from clocking data on the rising
> edge to clocking on the falling edge, or the other way around, I don't
> remember which.  Fortunately I wasn't the hardware designer who had to cope
> with all that strangeness.
>
>
> ... this I had totally missed.  Doubling the clock speed (from 25 to 50
> MHz) would be relatively easy (once I'm not running this over long
> ribbon cable) but switching the clock around like that would have really
> confused me, I think.  Thanks for the heads-up.
>
> There's some other speed increase (UHS) that comes along with also
> dropping from 3.3V down to 1.8V.  I don't know how to program FPGAs to
> do that or even know if they can.
>

I thought it was going from SPI mode to MMC mode that did this, not the
double clocking nor the 1bit to 4bit bus steps.

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