Logic Analysers

[Adrian Graham]

On 03/02/2017 23:29, "dwight" <dkelvey at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Adrian
> 
>  What you see on the other select line is what is called a glitch.
> 
> These are not that uncommon during the early part of the address.
> 
> What is important is that there are no glitchs when ALE transitions.

Ah, ok, there's a glitch filter that I can apply to each channel, I'll
explore that.

Cheers!



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> Subject: Re: Logic Analysers
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> On 03/02/2017 19:43, "Tony Duell" <ard.p850ug1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> But that's why I said 'about'. I am doing order-of-magnitude calculations,
>> not trying to design a delay line. I would estimate that between adjacent
>> ICs on the same board you'd get a delay measured in 10's or 100's of
>> picoseconds. That sort of order. So a 25MHz logic analyser, with an
>> effective time resolution of 40ns (if that) is not going to show it.
>> 
>> There is no way you're going to get delays of 40ns between adjacent
>> ICs on any reasonable PCB.
> 
> This is the sort of thing I mean:
> 
> http://www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk/STCExecutelA1checking.jpg
> 
> Watching the A1 address line (no triggers just sampling 6 points) and a
> pulse appears at ROM4 on the falling edge of the ALE signal but not the
> other 3 ROMs or the LS373 flip-flop that's demultiplexing the AD1 pin of the
> 8085. While I was thinking about the possibility of propagation delay I
> noticed this one:
> 
> http://www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk/STCExecutelA1checking2.jpg
> 
> Pulse missing from ROM3.
> 
> Given the paths on this board aren't massive and resistance is equal between
> all points when measured with a DMM (and all sockets have been replaced,
> traces checked etc) what else could I be looking at?
> 
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