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Post #8 by trag
Source Forum68kMLA
CategoryTroubleshooting
Post DateMon, 15 Aug 2011 - 20:29
Original URLhttps://68kmla.org/bb/threads/fc0-fc2-680x0-bus-signals-needed.23694/
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Thanks guys. So I guess the FC signals are present in the PDS slot to support the possibility that someone would build a coprocessor board of some kind. That makes sense. And it also seems that I can ignore them.

Unless there's some situation where the FC pins would indicate a 68881 transaction, but the address pins would be indicating the address space my card is decoding.

Hmmm. Better go double check that...

Okay, I was starting to worry that I would have to decode the three FC lines in the FPGA, or at least set up a little external logic to create a sort of anti-chip select when FC = 111. However, in the MC68030UM, section 10, I found this:

Bits A20 - A31 and A5-A12 of the MC68030 address bus are always zero during a coprocessor access.
Since the address space I'll be using are always going to have some non-zero value in bits A31-A30 or in A24-A23, I can decode just the address bus and be assured that I'm not interfering in a transaction which was meant for a coprocessor.

I need to check some more details to confirm that there isn't some detail that will get me, but I think it's safe to ignore the FC lines.

mp.ls