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• More Retro

  SHAOS • 02/20/2019 at 04:02 • 0 comments

  I decided to make this board compatible not only with IBM PCjr, but RC2014 too :)

  And on the right side of the board it may even have optional NI-15 interface for nedoPC-85 ;)
  

  So this board is for 3 different retro computers :)
  

  Inside of IBM PCjr it will fit this way:
  

  It will be some extra board that connects WizNET module with PCjrNet board and as you can see shape of the board is very tricky...
  

• Prototyping

  SHAOS • 02/17/2019 at 20:37 • 0 comments

  As I wrote in details I plan to use WizNET module WIZ812MJ (WIZ811MJ can also be used, but it doesn't have extra LEDs outputs and it's not currently available, at least on Digikey):

  On-board Ethernet chip W5100 has 3 modes in which it may work:

  1. Direct Bus Interface mode - all 15 address lines (with 8 data lines and a few control lines) are used to address internal 32KB memory directly;
  2. Indirect Bus Interface mode - only 2 address lines (and all 8 data lines plus a few control lines) are used to access 4 registers that address internal 32KB memory (it's also possible to set autoincrement for address during reading or writing);
  3. Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) mode - regular SPI inputs/outpus (/SS, SCLK, MOSI, MISO) are used in this mode (and all other address/data/control lines are ignored).

  So we are interested in Inderect Bus Interface mode, because we have only 3 address lines available (and it's IO space, not MEM space) - to control WinNET module we will use 2 (A0 and A1) and 3rd one can be used to access ROM that will be soldered separately on the board to store MAC address and may be some other things for user. So, for user it will look like this:

  3F8h - register MR of W5100 (indirect mode flag and auto-increment flag)
  3F9h - register IDM_AR0 of W5100 (most significant byte of the address)
  3FAh - register IDM_AR1 of W5100 (least significant byte of the address)
  3FBh - register IDM_DR of W5100 (data register to read/write in indirect mode)
  3FCh - reserved for future
  3FDh - reserved for future
  3FEh - reserved for future
  3FFh - reserved for future

  From WizNET module we need at least these
  

  1. GND
  2. +3.3V
  3. /RESET (if we will need to have an ability to reset module programmatically)
  4. /INT (interrupt to signal back to PC that buffers are full or empty)
  5. /CS (to programmatically chip enable WizNET module)
  6. /RD (read control signal)
  7. /WR (write control signal)
  8. A0
  9. A1
  10. D0
  11. D1
  12. D2
  13. D3
  14. D4
  15. D5
  16. D6
  17. D7
  18. /SCS (optional SPI - if this line goes down then module will switch to SPI mode)
  19. SCLK (optional SPI)
  20. MOSI (optional SPI)
  21. MISO (optional SPI)

  LEDs lines /LINKLED, TX_LED and RX_LED could be used on intermediate horizontal board without going to big vertical board:

  Actually that intermediate horizontal board may be turned into WizNET bread-board-friendly breakout board with 1 row of pins to make it easier to use WizNET module on standard solderless breadboard for prototyping purposes, but in this case it will be needed to extend address to all 15 address lines, so we will need to have no 21 pins, but 34 (3.5 inches long).

• FEATURED PROJECTS

  SHAOS • 02/14/2019 at 03:09 • 0 comments

  Somehow this project appeared on the 1st page of http://hackaday.com as one of the FEATURED PROJECTS ! Thanks, Hackaday :)

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