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- From: trisoft@bga.com (TriSoft)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.m68k
- Subject: Re: m68360 SMC in uart mode
- Date: 12 Jan 1996 08:47:22 -0600
- Organization: Real/Time Communications - Bob Gustwick and Associates
- Message-ID: <4d5s9r$n1p@jake.bga.com>
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- In article <DL17r3.G8s@strata.com>, Jim Short <jss> wrote:
- >I've been having a problem using the Rev. C m68360 Smc in uart mode. The
- >smc receives a garbled character about 1 in 20. This only occurs with a
- >Wyse WY-520/ES dumb terminal. Using a scope I have demonstrated that the
- >wave form of the transmitted character from the Wyse is very poor, with
- >low voltage and slow rise time. Apparently this is so bad that the smc
- >has problems with it. The m68360 Scc handles this ok, however.
-
- May or may not be relevant -- Last spring I did a project with this chip and
- had terrible problems with drift in the serial port clock. One set of
- symptoms was similar, namely that if you are sending a continuous string of
- characters you would slowly slide past the window, get a garbled character,
- and them more good ones.
-
- You might try watching that clock with a continuuous store scope or some
- such -- if the waveform starts getting "fuzzy" on the screen then it is
- drifting. Also, there is always the old "chill spray"/"hair dryer" test.
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- jmk
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