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Re: Scanning the original chips
« on: December 15, 2011, 09:26:10 AM »
They are scheduled to be scanned.
I am far more interested in the continuing polygonization (is that a word?) of the 68K - which I am working on.
Getting the exact internal microcode (note, it is split into two tables to compress it) will be very interesting and reduce the size of the softcores considerably.
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Re: Scanning the original chips
« Reply #1 on: December 15, 2011, 12:48:40 PM »
Let me know if you have it.
I have the details from the patents, but it's not terribly useful.
With the die scan we can see how the ops are decoded. It's a very neat design, all of the "strangeness" comes out as a result of implementation.
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