Re: 6522 vs 6526 (was Re: 6502 to 8501: new details)

From: Spiro Trikaliotis (Trik-news_at_gmx.de)
Date: 2002-02-28 10:21:06

Hi Ruud,

Ruud <ruud.baltissen@abp.nl> wrote:

> You can connect a 6821 directly to the bus of a C64, but you can NOT with a
> 6522. This has to do with the fact that the addressbus must be stable when
> CLK2 goes (H). One trick to connect a 6522 to a C64 is delaying the rising

Exactly, the setup time of the adress bus is too high. And if I remember
correctly, this is true for the 6821, too (at least, from the data sheet; it
might be that real chips "behave better" than this!).


> IIRC the original C= IEEE-interface uses a 6525, isn't it? If so, you can
> share the 6525 amongst the above IC.

I must admit I don't know anything about the 6525. ;-)

Spiro.


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