Documentation for F11 Chipset?

[Rob Jarratt]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Koning <paulkoning at comcast.net>
> Sent: 03 May 2021 19:29
> To: rob at jarratt.me.uk; Robert Jarratt <robert.jarratt at ntlworld.com>;
> cctalk at classiccmp.org
> Subject: Re: Documentation for F11 Chipset?
> 
> 
> 
> > On May 3, 2021, at 2:23 PM, Rob Jarratt via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org>
> wrote:
> >
> > Sadly my machine is not at the point where I can attach a console of any
> kind. The CPU is being reset every 13us by a bus error. I am having
trouble
> working out why though. I have got as far as working out that is the CT2
TIME
> OUT signal, but just why that is active isn't entirely clear to me. It
would help
> to have a working machine to compare it to!
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Rob
> 
> That sounds like it's trying to access the boot ROM and not getting an
answer.


I have been looking at this and I think you are right. But the reason is
odd. It looks like the ROMs are never being selected by the ROM address
decode. I can't find on the printset anything that says what the boot
address would be, perhaps that is burned into the F11 chipset? However, from
the Pro technical manual the ROM addresses are in the ranges
17730000-17767776, so I think the top 7 bits of the address should all be
1s. It looks like I never get anything other than 0s, when the address
strobe (CT6 RCV AS H on the printset) is asserted. There is activity on the
F11 chips, so I think they are working.

Any ideas anyone?

Thanks

Rob


> 
> 	paul