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by DblDragon
Fri Mar 23, 2018 2:55 pm
Forum: General Discussions
Topic: OT: a chip fab at home - detailed explanation
Replies: 12
Views: 3733

Re: OT: a chip fab at home - detailed explanation

I thought fabbing chips involved a number of polluting substances which is why there was only a handful of chip fab facilities.
Ya mean it can be done at home ?
by DblDragon
Fri Mar 23, 2018 2:43 pm
Forum: Programmable Logic
Topic: FAL6567 back-burner project
Replies: 55
Views: 46046

Re: FAL6567 back-burner project

The Vic-II uses A0 to A13 to access memory, so shouldn't be a problem to plug that into the Vic-II socket, include
While the VIC-II outputs a0 to A13, only a0 to a5 from the cpu goto the VIC. a0 to a13 are output in a multiplexed fashion and on the bus when AEC is low. When AEC is high the cpu has ...
by DblDragon
Fri Mar 23, 2018 2:32 pm
Forum: Newbies
Topic: New user id
Replies: 5
Views: 4425

New user id

Not really a newbie but I got a new user id. (Used to be Rob Finch) I changed pc's and couldn't remember my old id. After trying about eight different combinations I gave up. Things were complicated by the fact I could not use the same email address for a new id. Then I could not receive a message ...
by DblDragon
Fri Mar 23, 2018 2:24 pm
Forum: Hardware
Topic: Behaviour during reset low
Replies: 21
Views: 10266

Re: Behaviour during reset low

Sounds like a hardware semaphore might be needed. Can you have a flip-flop (or counter) set by a read operation to lock an address range for the memory operation ? Reading would return the previous value of the ff while setting it at the same time so that the next requester knows it’s busy. If the ...