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- From: dickg@develcon.com (Dick Ginther)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.m68k
- Subject: Re: Cheap DMA controller
- Date: 22 Feb 1996 08:17:05 -0600
- Organization: Develcon Electronics Ltd., Saskatoon, SK, Canada
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- References: <4ganqp$t3v@charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu> <4gcj6a$2os@zaphod.develcon.com> <4gd38j$fu0@charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu>
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- In article <4gd38j$fu0@charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu>,
- Chris Hafey <chafey@ecst.csuchico.edu> wrote:
- >In article <4gcj6a$2os@zaphod.develcon.com>,
- >Dick Ginther <dickg@develcon.com> wrote:
- >>The only ones I can think of are:
- >>- NEC 71071 (cheap single channel but has intel bus)
-
- I should think a little more before I type, the 71071 is a four channel
- unit. This costs about $6 US (well $9 CDN).
-
- >>- Siemens 82C257 (4 channels but intel bus)
-
- This costs about $40 US.
-
- >>
- >Would it be difficult to interface one of these to the 68k? I understand
- >that the intel uses a shared address/data bus. Could a few latches and a pld
- >get around this?
-
- I designed/debugged a 68000/71071/72001 circuit about 8 years ago. From what
- I can recall, it did work (but the project was cancelled and it never reached
- production). I had the device completely isolated from the cpu by using
- latches on the address bus and transceivers on the data bus. These trans-
- ceivers also helped with the byte-order difference between the 68k and
- 71071. It took a couple of pals back then to do the bus request logic,
- transceiver mux and cpu interface.
-
- While it certainly is possible to use it again, I was hoping someone in the
- industry had built a similar device that directly attached to the 68k.
- --
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