Troed's H4 build

[troed]

I've had some progress here. The GAL is up and running the H4 fine with "stock clocks" being emulated, just handing out 32->4MHz via the jumpers. But it turns out my lack of proper micro electronics education is catching up with me - I don't seem to be able to figure out how to handle DTACK.

In stock mode I can just connect the bodge wire - but I know from the doubleST STF that when accelerated I will need to slow down DTACK. So, what I've been trying to do is to connect one end of the bodge wire to a DTACK_IN pin, and then an output as DTACK_OUT (to the CPU). I'm quite sure I had this working without any special treatment, just a straight combinatorial out=in, but either I was wrong or something else isn't working. If I declare the output as .OE at least the H4 starts to boot, but when I measure the input and output the GAL isn't passing anything through, the actual level of the output doesn't change so at some stage I guess the H4 bus errors out and goes high.

Any hints on how to declare the input and output pins and logic?

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DTACK_OUT.oe = DTACK;

is apparently not enough.

[exxos]

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CPU_DTACK.D = SYS_DTACK # CPU_AS;
CPU_DTACK.OE = !SYS_DTACK;

[troed]

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CPU_DTACK.D = SYS_DTACK # CPU_AS;
CPU_DTACK.OE = !SYS_DTACK;

Thanks, I have no idea why this turned out to be so problematic. 'stock' below is 1 when running stock clocks:

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*** INPUT ***
PIN 10 = !DTACK;
*** OUTPUT ***
PIN 14 = !DTACK_OUT;

*** equations ***

DTACK_OUT.D = DTACK & stock;
DTACK_OUT.OE = !DTACK & stock;

I tried with both .D (registered) and without (combinatorial) but this still just gave me a constant high on both input and output. In this mode all I'm really trying to do is have the GAL be "transparent" but still in control of the signal.

/Troed

[exxos]

There is something odd that you can't drive OE and a signal from the same signal.. IIRC ORing it with CPU_AS gets around that problem.

Normally I just do something like

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CPU_DTACK = 'b'0;
CPU_DTACK.OE = !SYS_DTACK

IIRC

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CPU_DTACK =SYS_DTACK;
CPU_DTACK.OE = !SYS_DTACK

doesn't work.