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- From: chrisw@well.sf.ca.us (Chris Whittenburg - Ilogic Systems)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.m68k
- Subject: 68302 DS1 Trouble
- Date: 4 Mar 1996 17:27:09 GMT
- Organization: The Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA
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- I'm using a MC68302 in PCM HIGHWAY mode connected up to a
- Dallas Semi DS1 chipset... The 302 is in HDLC mode.
-
- When the '302 has nothing to send, it sends out flags (7E)
- cleanly. Looking at them with a test set shows no errors
- either at layer2 or layer1. Thus, I believe that the clocking
- is clean (it looks pretty good on a scope too), and the
- interface to the DS1 chipset is good.
-
- Now, if I transmit an HDLC frame from the 302, the first
- dozen or so (this varies) bytes are good, but then in
- the middle of the frame I get what looks like a clock slip
- (I.E. a byte of $01 might become $02) and then its
- stable for 24 bytes, and then another slip, and then stable
- for 24 bytes, etc.
-
- It seems like it might be a noisy clock, but the idle flags
- are all perfect, which makes me think it might be some
- subtle configuration of the 302?
-
- Does anyone have any pointers?
- Thanks,
- chris
-
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