Monday, January 16, 2017

Building a 68000 Single Board Computer - RAM and ROM Address Select (schematic page 4)

See https://github.com/jefftranter/68000/blob/master/TS2/v2/ts2.pdf

The selection of the individual RAM and EPROM components from the address decoder outputs is carried out by the circuit of page 4. Two-input OR gates combine one of the four device-select signals (SEL0* to SEL3*) from the address decoder with the appropriate data strobe (UDS* or LDS*) to produce the actual active-low chip-select inputs to the eight memory components on the CPU module.

The circuit is also responsible for overlaying the reset vector space onto the ROM memory space. When the RV* signal goes active-low while a reset vector is being fetched, the read/write memory at $00000000 to $00003FFF is disabled and the EPROM at $00008000 to $0000BFFF substituted.

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