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Re: Accelerator Cards
« on: December 12, 2008, 02:20:41 PM »
The 68000 cannot connect directly to the RAM. 68000 bus cycles and DRAM bus cycles are not the same.

An interface chip must be used. These were mainly PAL/PLD chips with the logic written by the board vendor.

Most 32-bit 680x0 chips have the full 32-bit address bus which give access to 4Gbytes of address space.

However to save money very few board designs forward all address lines to the RAM sockets.

It's not a matter of passing all address lines to the RAM. The board does some address decoding also.

While a worthy home-brew project I feel that with the lack of documentation you might never be able to work out how the logic on the board works.