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A project log for 74HCT6526

Building a Drop-In Replacement for the MOS6526. Sponsored by PCBWay

daniel-molinaDaniel Molina 10/12/2019 at 21:300 Comments

I've spent quite a few hours this weekend here

It's starting to look a lot like my bedroom when I was a kid, not sure if that's good or bad though...  :D 

Using a small piece of assembly that took me 2 hours to complete (I've got so rusty)

I've been able to try plenty of stuff. There are some things remaining that will need some heavy use of my logic analyzer, as timing's crucial.

The good news so far :

The untested bits:

And the know issues:

  1. TIMERA underflow seems to fail. Could be a bad solder
  2. START bit gets set to 1 on its own sometimes. Same for both TIMERS. 
  3. Adittional tick in One Shot Mode. I think this is caused by the 2 DFF feeding the clock to the Timer. When Timer stops, there more clocks in the queue. I probably need to clear one of them when the underflow is reached.

All in all... I'd say it's a 7/10 score so far. START bit has me scratching heavily my head... but I think I should better sleep on it. I've had no ideas about what's causing this so far.

Cheers!

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