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- Path: rintintin.Colorado.EDU!mcclurel
- From: mcclurel@rintintin.Colorado.EDU (Linden McClure)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.m68k
- Subject: M68K to ISA Bus Interface Help Needed
- Date: 26 Jan 1996 00:52:44 GMT
- Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
- Message-ID: <4e98ks$cv5@peabody.colorado.edu>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: rintintin.colorado.edu
- Keywords: ISA, m68k
-
- Hi,
-
- Another student and I have been trying to interface a 68EC040
- processor with a commercial ISA bus frame grabber card. We are using a
- Xilinx FPGA to generate the ISA bus control signals and have had quite a
- bit of success with it, but the circuit doesn't work all of the time.
- We're hoping someone will be able to help us solve this problem.
-
- The problem we're having has to do with writes to the frame grabber.
- When the card is first booted, its microcode needs to be downloaded from
- the 68040. Once the download is done, we read back the microcode from
- the grame grabber to verify it, and every time we end up with errors at
- the same addresses. These errors only account for about 5% of the
- entire microcode, as we read back the correct values for the other 95%
- of the addresses.
-
- These errors always have the same value and occur at the same address.
- We have looked at logic traces of the writes to the card for these
- addresses, and they look no different from good writes; all the signals
- look correct (they look like the signals generated on an XT in which the
- frame grabber works correctly), and the correct value is being received
- by the card.
-
- We have tested this card in a 486, and it works fine, so the card is
- okay. We must be doing something wrong. If anyone has any experience
- with interfacing the ISA bus and Motorola processors, please get in
- touch with us. We're really at a loss with this thing.
-
- You can reach us by email:
-
- Linden McClure: Linden.McClure@Colorado.EDU
- Eric Wanosky: wanosky@Colorado.EDU
-
- Thanks,
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- Linden H. McClure | / \ / \/\ /\/ \
- Linden.McClure@Colorado.EDU | / \/\ / \ \/\ \
- Command & Data Handling Engineer | / \ / \ / \ \
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