[Coco] deuce memory bandwidth?
Kevin Diggs
kevdig at hypersurf.com
Sat Aug 7 21:37:21 EDT 2004
Hi,
So is the moral of the story that I CAN get an instruction
byte every clock cycle if I need one? At either normal or hyper
speed?
And on deuces and unis there will be no cycles left over for
video at hyper speed?
kevin
jdaggett at gate.net wrote:
>
> You are right. The hardest thing to remember is which clock is
> which.
>
> Address is latched out on the rising edge of Q
> Data Latched out on the Rising edge of E.
> Data latched in on the falling edge of E.
>
> james
>
> On 7 Aug 2004 at 17:04, Paul T. Barton wrote:
>
> Date sent: Sat, 7 Aug 2004 17:04:41 -0700 (PDT)
> From: "Paul T. Barton" <idezilla at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [Coco] deuce memory bandwidth?
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> > 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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