Subject: Re: Motorola cpus and swappability
To: Ken Nakata <kenn@eden.rutgers.edu>
From: Peter Kelm <kelm@physik.TU-Berlin.DE>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 06/10/1996 10:21:26
On Sun, 9 Jun 1996, Ken Nakata wrote:
> > On Sun, 9 Jun 1996 11:39:41 -0600
> > benh@inlink.com (Ben Hockenhull) wrote:
> >
> > > I have heard that the 030@50mhz chips are internally clockdoubled. I am
> > > wondering if this is indeed true. If so, I would think that I'd see an
> > > increase in processing speed, but not in external I/O.
> >
> It must be "externally clock-halved", then ;-) I remember many of the
> Motorola M68K CPUs trigger/sample its output/input signals at both
> falling and rising edges of the clock input, so it was kind of a
> common practice to clock the CPU-bus interface circuitry at twice the
> CPU clock frequency.
>
> > So, I'm not sure where the "internally clock-doubled" notion comes from :-)
>
> Probably he was confusing the 040 rumored to be internally
> clock-doubled (which is only partially true) and the 030.
Concerning clock chipping -> look at:
http://bambam.cchem.berkeley.edu/~schrier/mhz.html
hope this helps .... anyway....
bye peter
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Peter Kelm (kelm@physik.tu-berlin.de)
Technical University Berlin
Physics Department