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It has been a long journey to get to this point, but we are pleased to report . Further testing will be done before reporting that a hardware solution has been found.
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- The chip select of the decoder remains unchanged.
This selects the RAM Chip Enable when A19 is low and the FLASH Chip Enable when A19 is high. - The FLASH chip only uses its Chip Enable when it is read, like a ROM.
The second independent part of the decoder does a similar function to the FLASH chip like the first, by only enabling its Output Enable signal with ROE, when A19 is high and Card Enable is low. This means that when the on board RAM is accessed, or the card is no longer enabled, the FLASH chip is no longer able to write to the data bus. - The extra circuitry does in effect the same thing as the chip enable, but gates the Output Enable signal. This prevents the flash chip from writing to the data bus when it is not selected.
POE & ROE
Splitting these two signals on the 512K/512K Flash/RAM card has made no difference. There are more cycles generated on the POE signal to refresh the RAM, but it was found that even Cambridge are using the ROE signal for their RAMs so it is proposed to leave ROE to Output Enable the FLASH and RAM as before.
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