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- From: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: maximum A3000 speed
- Message-ID: <34451@cbmvax.commodore.com>
- Date: 18 Aug 92 15:58:01 GMT
- References: <1992Aug18.074524.4515@nestroy.wu-wien.ac.at>
- Reply-To: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
- Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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- In article <1992Aug18.074524.4515@nestroy.wu-wien.ac.at> staferne@risc.uni-linz.ac.at (Stefan Taferner) writes:
- >Hi folks !
-
- >My question is: what is the possible upper bound for accelerating
- >the A3000.
-
- Safely? 25MHz is it. If you go to a faster crystal, you're asking for
- trouble from the A3000 system chips (Gary, RAMSEY, Buster, DMAC). These
- chips use a two phase clocking scheme, one "CPUCLK" that's the same as the
- 68030 clock, and one "CLK90" that's delayed 90 degrees from CPUCLK. If
- you up the CPUCLK speed by changing the 32MHz or 50MHz basis clock to
- something faster, CLK90 will no longer be phased correctly. CLK90 is
- generated from a tap delay, a 3-pin strip post jumper allowing selection
- of the proper tap for either 16MHz or 25MHz operation. There is no other
- position. Aside from this, none of these chips are qualified to work any
- faster, and there's a real good chance they won't, even if you did build
- a correct CLK90, added faster DRAM, etc.
-
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