[Coco] 6309/6809 power consumption

Christopher R. Hawks chawks at dls.net
Thu Oct 17 14:35:01 EDT 2019


On Thu, 17 Oct 2019 10:22:41 -0400
Gene Heskett <gheskett at shentel.net> wrote:

> On Thursday 17 October 2019 09:31:37 Christopher R. Hawks wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 17 Oct 2019 09:01:53 +0000 (UTC)
> >
> > Roy Justus via Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com> wrote:
> > > hi  gene nice to hear from you .  As long as you are
> > > still kickin' I feel there is hope for the rest of us.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Gene Heskett <gheskett at shentel.net>
> > > To: coco <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> > > Sent: Wed, Oct 16, 2019 6:20 pm
> > > Subject: Re: [Coco] 6309/6809 power consumption
> > >
> > > On Wednesday 16 October 2019 17:16:47 Salvador Garcia via Coco
> > > wrote:
> > > > I can't seem to find how much current these uPs need. I know the
> > > > 63xx uses less current than its Motorola counterpart, but can't
> > > > seem to find this information. Can anyone point me in the right
> > > > direction. Thank you! Salvador
> > >
> > > The HD63C09 is a CMOS functional sorta clone of the 68x09. As a
> > > much newer from scratch design, and in CMOS, where the current
> > > draw is proportional to the clocking speed, judging by the total
> > > lack of heat produced, I'd have to put its current consumption at
> > > 20 ma max at the coco3's std clock speed.  The 2 CMOS dimm memory
> > > sticks in my 2 meg coco3 warms up a photo thermometer whose stem
> > > is laying on the grill above the memory chips shows about 2
> > > degrees F above ambient when running 24/7.  And thats with a
> > > furniture blanket covering it. There simply isn't any great
> > > amount of heat generated by the 63C09. However, if your memory is
> > > the old 1 bit nmos dynamic, 16 of them, they'll still warm up,
> > > possibly more because the CMOS 63x has rail to rail drive, more
> > > than the 68x causeing the memory to be a higher load drawing more
> > > current, and so will the 63c09 due to the higher current draw
> > > used by their address lines. I've never had that config, so I
> > > won't hazard a WAG what the diff might be.
> > >
> > > Cheers, Gene Heskett
> >
> > 
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> Humph, brain teasers. :)
> 
> I think thats the best defined rms to peak conversion I've ever seen.
> I have always assumed it was endless, like pi.
>  
> > Christopher R. Hawks
> > HAWKSoft
> > --
> > UNIX is not some crystalline bon-bon for computer scientists to
> > smack their lips over. It's all a big hack! Get over it! Go back to
> > your syntax-directed Scheme editor and your pen-and-paper
> > philosophizing! Leave the rest of us to our Perl hacking
> > and .Xdefaults files. -- Garth Snyder, on
> > big-staff at cs.swarthmore.edu ----------------------------------------
> >        \   ^__^
> >         \  (oo)\_______
> >            (__)\       )\/\
> >
> >                ||----w |
> 
> 
> Cheers, Gene Heskett

    It may actually be endless. That's the first couple hundred digits
of the square root of 2. ( +1 and a bit more to Roy J. )


Christopher R. Hawks
HAWKSoft
-- 
If Strike Isn't Settled Quickly, It May Last Awhile
Ya' think?!
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