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Re: Zorro 3 Bus Speed
« on: March 09, 2010, 04:11:49 PM »
Quote from: HammerD;546392
Would it be possible to put a drop-in replacement for buster to

1) fix stupid bugs
2) make it auto-magically faster?


I've imagined exactly this before. Since Jens has the ability to actually do it, I'm hopeful that he or someone else who can, does. Is there enough market for it to make commercial sense? Not sure about that part...

For socketed Buster motherboards, yes, you can do those two things. Think something like the 2MB Chip Ram things that fit into the Agnus socket. perhaps even have something else in the FPGA if there's room and something useful to do.

For SMT Buster motherboards, you need something to attach the FPGA thing to. And you can't disable Buster like you can disable 68000 for accelerator systems, you'd need to remove the SMT soldered Buster chip and put a socket in its place. Doable, but not necessarily anyone at home installing that.
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Re: Zorro 3 Bus Speed
« Reply #1 on: March 09, 2010, 04:12:57 PM »
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With the usual trouble finding 5V tolerant FPGAs...


Put some level shifters on the PCB, a voltage regulator perhaps. Not a problem.
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Re: Zorro 3 Bus Speed
« Reply #2 on: September 15, 2012, 06:26:44 PM »
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No-one is going to make one. It is not economically viable.


Then find someone to do it for reasons other than making lots of money.

http://opencores.org/project,zorro_to_wishbone_bridge
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