Re:Homebrew Amiga Graphics Card (FPGA, Open Source) Finished...
by rvense on Sunday February 05, 2017 @08:37PM
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Isn't Nubus a great deal more complicated than Zorro, though?
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Re:Homebrew Amiga Graphics Card (FPGA, Open Source) Finished...
by eschaton on Sunday February 05, 2017 @09:13PM
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Not much; Zorro is basically the 68000 bus protocol, while NuBus is more general. But it's just a multiplexed address/data bus with a selectable 8/16/32-bit l word size for data transfers, it can be implemented with a simple state machine.
All you really need are the level shifting buffers just as with the Zorro interface, and enough I/O for the 50-some NuBus signals. That breaks down to 32 address/data lines, a few NuBus control lines, and some lines to control the level shifting buffers.