[Coco] deuce memory bandwidth?

Mark Marlette mmarlett at isd.net
Sat Aug 7 20:18:52 EDT 2004


At 05:04 PM 8/7/2004 -0700, you wrote:

Paul,

You are correct Sir! :)

Mark
Cloud-9

>James,
>
>--- jdaggett at gate.net wrote:
>
> > Kevin
> >
> > one other note.
> >
> > The 6809/6309 operate under a two phase clock
> > system. The two
> > clocks are in quadrature and the Q clock leads
> > the E clock by 90
> > degress.  All machine cycles are referenced to
> > the falling edge of the E clock.
> >
> > The CPU latches data out on databuss on the
> > rising edge of the E
> > clock and latches data into the core from the
> > data buss on the
> > falling edge of the E clock. Data  being read
> > by the CPU must be
> > stable by the falling edge of the Eclock and
> > should  have a hold
> > time of about 5% of the machine cycle after the
> > fall of the Eclock.
> > One more item, the address bus is valid on the
> > falling edge of the Q clock.
>
>How about rising?
>I read that addresses are valid
>on rising edge of Q.
>
>
> > By using a two phase clock the 6809 can move
> > stuff around withing
> > the processor four times faster than a CISC
> > processor usign a
> > single pahse clock. If you XOR the two phase
> > clocks, you get an
> > equivalent 4 times frequency clock.
> >
> > james
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>
>
>
>
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