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- From: accolyte@wr.com.au (Accolyte)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: need help on A1200/030 board programming
- Date: 7 Feb 1996 13:30:44 GMT
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- > Hello,
- >
- > this will sound strange, but here's what happens.
- > We have been testing some of the 030 boards for A1200 (Amiga Power,
- > DKB...), and got some strange results.
- >
- > It appears that these boards are almost two times slower when accessing
- > CHIP RAM, than a basic A1200 (no acel. no extra RAM)!?
- >
- > 12 gauge, Blizzard and others, on the other hand, are two times faster
- > (which is normal).
- >
- > So, the question is - is there a solution to make these 030s access
- > CHIP RAM at normal speed?
-
- I had a theory about.. well, let me explain:
-
- Say you have an 030 at 50MHz, and presuming the internal 020 is clocked
- to 14. As I understand it, this comes from a 28MHz crystal that is
- sent to the chip-ram and custom chips, etc before being halved and sent
- to the processor.
-
- If you could replace that 28MHz clock with a 56MHz one, send that straight
- to the 030, halve it then put the resulting 28MHz signal into the normal
- pathway that goes to the custom chips and is halved again before reaching
- the processor. This would give you a slightly overclocked 030 that's
- perfectly timed with the chip-ram, and hopefully giving optimal performance.
-
- Unfortunately, theorising is the limit of my hardware knowledge. Could
- some people more experienced in hardware comment on it's feasability?
-
-
- For the moment though, the only solution seems to be using fast ram
- whenever possible if it is present. Certainly for the code, and
- for the source bitmaps wherever it's possible. It might mean a seperate
- routine to replace straight blits, but the result would be great
- improvement.
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