Thursday, March 20, 2014

68k project: step 5 - SD interface


  The idea of SD interface is just an adoptation of my SD interface for Searle's Grant SBC. So go there for SD card pinout,resistor values, 3.3V power, etc. The only change is 2*7474 to one 74175. Or you can use 2*7474. Or any latch of this sort.
  Some notes: a rewiring /AC0000,CPURESET->SETAVRCLK, FCE,AVRCE->MIXEDCLK2 on the scheme is not significant at all and is here just to correspond my actual wiring.
    As for SD interface, it consists of a 74175 trigger for data output and 7403 as data input. To write to 74175 we mix /A80000 line with /MEMWR and /DS (on an extra 7432) and latch D0-D2 to the trigger, so that are SD card's Clock (SDCLK), DataIn (SDDATAIN) and Chip Select (SCCS) [why SCCS? Rename it to SDSC later] SPI lines. They should be mixed via resistors to get 3.3V-alike signals (again, see this). Do not forget that SD card itself should be feed with +2.8 - +3.3V so you can use 7833 or just a LED to drop the voltage.
   For data in, we mix /A80000 line with /MEMRD and /DS to get /80000RD and invert it to get 80000RD. Passed throw 7403 (with SDDATAOUT) we direct this open-collecor output to D0. So this output is low only when 80000RD is active (high) and SDDATAOUT is high too, so this is inverted input. So, from 68k side we can

    move.b #7,$80000 ; CS - up, Dataout - up, CLK - up
    move.b #2,$80000 ; CS - down, Dataout - up, CLK - down


manage that bits this way (but better keep higher bits high - we may have some extra SPI devices in future), and to read it just read lower bit from $80000 and invert it.

Just to remind:
D0 - CLK
D1 - DATAOUT
D2 - CS
D3 and D4-D7 - reserved for future SPI devices (who knows which? extra Atmega, RTC, etc)

   The Code for ChV can detect (command "BOOT") the card (CMD0), can send it CMD1 for (doing smth usefull), some command to ensure the card's sector size is 512 bytes, but nothing more still. (I use this and this) as reference)
  Also, scince now I use Atmega's PC5 pin for CTS. That's because I've tried to cut-and-paste CP/M-68 S-record files and was unable to do that without hardware flow. So in AVR code there is a #define WITH_CTS to use this code (enabled by default) and 256 bytes ring boofer for handling input bytes from serial.
  As you could note, there is a sort-of-monitor program included in 68k asm Currently it can:
BF Blink SDCLK fast (with fullspeed clock)
BS Blink SDCLK slow (with AVRCLK)
BLINK Blink until key pressed (fullspeed clock)
ON Set SDCLK to 0 (or 1)
OFF Set SDCLK to 0 (or 1)
1 Set SDCLK to 1, SDDATAIN to 0, SCCS to 0)
2 Set SDCLK to 0, SDDATAIN to 1, SCCS to 0)
4 Set SDCLK to 0, SDDATAIN to 0, SCCS to 1)
IN Tell SDDATAOUT status (or inverted SDDATAOUT?)
DUMP[optional address] Dump memory from address (or continue to dump from that address if no address given)
BOOT Try to init the SD card
S[srecord] Parce S-Records. It understands S1,S2,S3 records and ignores all the others

It's easy to extend this command set:
first, write an f_myfunc subrotine which should return to monotor with rts. Then add it's mnemonic to commands: and it's address (f_myfunc) to commands_vector When called, A1 will point to the first byte after you's command mnemonic in input buffer, so if was called as
myfuncbebebe
, A1 will point to "bebebe"
  :Also there is one more thing I want to warn you: I use ISP programming of ATmega via SCLK/MOSI/MISO/RESET pins of ATmega, AND THIS IS UNRELATED TO SPI BUS WE'VE JUST DISCUSSED!
  : Be careful: I've burned 3 Atmega's while ISP programming it until I installed a RESET switch for CPU (RESET+HALT)
So to make an ISP firmware update, hold down RESET+HALT of CPU, then do firmware update (I use avrdude and usbasp)


A few days ago I've picked up an Electronica MS0511 computer - the UKNC (Электроника МС0511, УКНЦ) - one of the most advanced soviet widely-used home computer (actually it is not home computer - it's a school computer; it uses 42V power instead of 220 for the children do not kill themselfs and the teacher and eveyone around). The strangest thing is that it uses K1802VM2 (К1802ВМ2) CPU - actually, two of them, one as video controller. It's able to run some DEC oses - RT-11 saying. So may be one day I'll try to make and PDP-11 compatible SBC (I can buy this CPUs easily). Or not, I do not know. May be I'll try to play with 6809 or Z8001 instead. I've not decided yet. Got it for around $20.