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by kvp
Sat Feb 01, 2020 6:57 pm
Forum: Hardware
Topic: Building a passive backplane based expandable system
Replies: 25
Views: 2765

Re: Building a passive backplane based expandable system

Thanks! So i'm adding a 3.3k pullup to the /notready line. Also considering using the unused lines as chip selects for some of the 16 available 1KB i/o blocks or maybe just to bring out some of the rest of the useful control lines. I'll have to draw up the decoding circuits for the ram, rom, pia*2 ...
by kvp
Mon Jan 27, 2020 4:53 pm
Forum: Hardware
Topic: Building a passive backplane based expandable system
Replies: 25
Views: 2765

Re: Building a passive backplane based expandable system

Thanks! Based on the many successful projects that were linked, i'm now sure it's doable. So as long as i keep the traces short and the clock frequency low, there should be no problems. For the connectors, the standard pins and the very similar DIN41612 looks good for the raster boards that i can ...
by kvp
Fri Jan 24, 2020 3:47 pm
Forum: Hardware
Topic: Building a passive backplane based expandable system
Replies: 25
Views: 2765

Building a passive backplane based expandable system

Hi, i'm newbie here and i would like to ask about the feasibility of my idea. Looking at some youtube videos, i stumbled upon various 6502 based systems from single board computers to breadboard based ones (thanks to Ben Eater) and started thinking about making something similar, since when i was a ...