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- From: lapena@athena.cs.uga.edu (Chito Lapena)
- Subject: Help with memory-mapped cards for the pc
- Message-ID: <1992Dec11.233020.16997@athena.cs.uga.edu>
- Sender: lapena@athena.cs.uga.edu (Chito Lapena)
- Organization: University of Georgia, Athens
- Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 23:30:20 GMT
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- I have made a card with 64k of static RAM on-board that I access
- memory-mapped. This has been a kind of on-the fly type of thing
- since we don't have the documentation for everything. The card is
- read only from the PC-bus and write only from an external bus.
- The external bus data and addresses are put in Z whenever the
- address from the PC bus qualifies and are re-enabled when the
- PC finishes its read cycle.
-
- We are getting a lot of noise and I would like advice on a couple
- of things:
-
- The noise looks like this. I am plotting 64,000 bytes of the space on
- a graded B&W colormap from 0 to 255 on a 320 X 200 screen using block
- moves repetitively.
-
- At some points, the noise is
- perfectly still and at some points it blinks. I can write over *most*
- of the stuff that keeps still but some of it refuses to go away.
- The stuff that blinks stays in the same place- at a pattern that
- seems to couple with the address bus somehow.
-
-
- 1. The card decodes addresses and spits out data at a little less than
- 200 ns- is this fast enough for a device on the bus? I noticed
- that the memories on my video card are 100 ns Dynamic RAMS. The
- memories I use are 100 ns static RAMS.
-
- 2. What are some of the most common and most effective ways of decoupling
- noise? I have put 0.1uF tantalum caps on just about all of my chips.
- Although they seemed to stabilize the noise a little- it's still
- there.
-
- 3. Could it be the way that we make our PCB's? We just etch the stuff
- on copper with photo-resist and acid and coat it with gold.
- I am using 25mil spacing on my tracks. At the speed this stuff is
- going- do we need anything else to avoid decoupling? These might be
- innocent questions but like I said, we don't have all of the documentation
- we need.
-
-
- any help would be appreciated
-
-
- thanks
-
- -chito
- lapena@athena.cs.uga.edu
-
-