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The Decoding of the U51 TPAL2

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forthnutterForthnutter 05/11/2026 at 14:261 Comment

I start to decode the U51 TPAL2 PAL16R8 today.  Made an interesting discovery, I notice that the RAM CASL and CASU signals are swapped. Scratching my head, thinking why ?.

This must have been a slight design error and the designer decided to correct the error within the PAL. So the UDS signal turns into CASL and LDS  is CASU.

Here is a quick snap shot of signal don't panic the timing is not correct, I stimulated the clock signals with the logic analysers wave generator. More to come.

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Keith wrote 05/21/2026 at 21:58 point

UDS enables D15-8. LDS enables D7-0.
Looking at the circuit diagram, CASL enables video D15-8. CASU enables video D7-0.

The designer named the signals wrongly.
The circuit wiring is correct though.

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