TF330 Performance Improvements

[alenppc]

running it now on a gold 68030RC33, surprisingly no crashes yet.

[alenppc]

This CPU is a bit sulky. But I think it’s a fake/rebranded from China.

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[terriblefire]

Curious... Did it work with the older firmwre?

I'm just back froma 5 hour visit to A&E.. having had puss removed from my gums :(

[alenppc]

Curious... Did it work with the older firmwre?

I'm just back froma 5 hour visit to A&E.. having had puss removed from my gums :(

No, it craps out on the old one as well. It's a set of 3 I got on ebay, but each one has different issues. They are probably rebranded 16mhz parts.

Good known 33/50 mhz rev C gold parts from Mr Russia work perfectly.

[supaduper]

Hope your feeling better Steve

I am sure I have a gold genuine 030/50, will look tomorrow

[alenppc]

The rev1 is also rocking the v2 firmware without issues, I just need to figure out how to patch the reset wire on it.

[supaduper]

`Burst` firmware confirmed working on a Genuine `Gold` 030/50 mhz

[terriblefire]

Ok. Just waiting to hear back from 8 Bit Dreams. But it looks like we got somewhere between 33% and 50% performance increase with that firmware update.

For anyone interested here is the CPLD usage stats.

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*************************  Mapped Resource Summary  **************************

Macrocells     Product Terms    Function Block   Registers      Pins           
Used/Tot       Used/Tot         Inps Used/Tot    Used/Tot       Used/Tot       
140/144 ( 97%) 374 /720  ( 52%) 302/432 ( 70%)   88 /144 ( 61%) 117/117 (100%)

** Function Block Resources **

Function    Mcells      FB Inps     Pterms      IO          
Block       Used/Tot    Used/Tot    Used/Tot    Used/Tot    
FB1          18/18*      37/54       36/90      15/15*
FB2          18/18*      47/54       38/90      15/15*
FB3          18/18*      47/54       49/90      15/15*
FB4          18/18*      32/54       40/90      15/15*
FB5          18/18*      45/54       60/90      14/14*
FB6          14/18       21/54       41/90      13/13*
FB7          18/18*      46/54       58/90      15/15*
FB8          18/18*      27/54       52/90      15/15*
             -----       -----       -----      -----    
            140/144     302/432     374/720    117/117

[supaduper]

Just to add that all 030 CPU`s are not equal, I use the 40mhz and have a variation on the the Dhrystones from 8700 9200 even the genuine `Gold ` 030/50 scores 8700 Dhrystones :), like everything in life yer pays yer money and takes yer choice :)

And my Laptop crashed last night with all recent changes we did...thank god for the cloud and being vigilant with my backing up so nothing lost !

[8 Bit Dreams]

Ok. Just waiting to hear back from 8 Bit Dreams. But it looks like we got somewhere between 33% and 50% performance increase with that firmware update

thanks for waiting on me, and sorry im beeing not so fast with my replies this time. Got working CD32 PCB locally, and here are my results:
Fake Freescale 68EC030RP40 CPU works great:

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Have same fake ceramic CPU like Alen has - will test it shortly, also have an original ceramic CPU from Blizzard IV 1230 - this also need to be tested.

Beside of that wanna report:

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SAMSUNG RAM K4S561632J-UC75 is working absolutely stable!