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Peripheral Chip Emulation

A project log for 3-Chip Z80 Design

Combining a Z80 retro design with a modern PSoC CPU.

land-boardscomland-boards.com 09/21/2019 at 13:060 Comments

Thinking through the PSoC design and how to implement peripherals.  Want:

Z80 I/O Address Latch in PSoC

Latches the 8-bits of address from the Z80. This address can be read by the PSoC via the Z80_IO_Address Status Register.

I/O Chip Selects can be hard decoded.

I/O Mailbox

The I/O mailbox circuit is implemented with data and control/status register as follows:

The PSoC writes to the UART_Data_P2Z register which can be read from the Z80.  RS Flip Flops are set when the UART_Data_P2Z is written from the Z80 or UART_Data_Z2P is read by the Z80. Bits from the Control_Reg_2 is used to clear the RS Flip Flops. Status_Reg_2 is used to read the output of the RS Flip Flops by (or can cause interrupts to) the PSoC.

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