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- From: peterk@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com (Dr Peter Kittel Germany)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: 14.xx & 7.xx Mhz, why?
- Keywords: 68000
- Message-ID: <10017@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com>
- Date: 6 Nov 92 07:22:52 GMT
- References: <1992Nov5.224246.25432@ifi.uio.no>
- Reply-To: peterk@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com (Dr Peter Kittel Germany)
- Organization: Commodore Germany
- Lines: 23
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- In article <1992Nov5.224246.25432@ifi.uio.no> stigo@ifi.uio.no (Stig Arne Olsen) writes:
- >
- >Can some guru :-) here tell me why C= are clocking the processors below what
- >they were made for? They do not seem to do it with the faster processors,
- >but why are the Mc68000 just 7 and Mc68020 in the A1200 14Mhz? Has it something
- >to do with dma-cycle timing?
-
- No, it's *video* timing. Simply dividing those clock frequencies by 2 or 4
- (or so :-) gives you the base frequency for NTSC (or PAL) video, so that
- it's no problem to generate video-compatible output and to integrate the
- Amiga into video equipment.
-
- >And why are the 68030 in the A3000 running at the
- >full 25Mhz, if this is a problem?
-
- As far as I know it's a special feature of the 68030 processor that it can
- be easily clocked asynchronously, i.e. the rest of the machine still runs
- at some video-compatible clock (at least the part around Chip RAM and the
- Custom Chips), while the processor is clocked higher.
-
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