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Need capture and signal help for homebrew accelerator project

Looking for a logic analyzer capture on a Macintosh Portable (or M5126 backlit) motherboard, PDS connector side. I’m scoping the bus timing for a homebrew accelerator project.


Signals needed, all captured simultaneously, PDS pins in parens:


• /AS (c8)


• /DTACK (b7)


• /DELAY.CS (a5)


• /EXT.DTACK (b30) probably idle/high in stock config, but capture it anyway


• 16M reference clock (b31), just as a timebase


Trigger on falling edge of /AS. Want to see: (1) how many 16M clock cycles between /AS falling and /DTACK falling on a normal RAM access, (2) whether /DELAY.CS ever asserts during a normal cycle or only under specific conditions (e.g. slow ROM/I-O access), and (3) confirmation that /EXT.DTACK is truly unused in stock config. A few captures; one during a plain RAM read, one during a ROM read, one during any I/O access (SCC/VIA) if you can trigger on those that would be huge. 8-16 channel analyzer is plenty, all this data would be extremely helpful and valuable to me if anyone has the capability to do this.
 
I only have a 4 channel logic analyzer. Would I be able to do it with that? And I don't quite know how to trigger ram rom or scc/via read If you could tell me how those would be triggered. I would be happy to help. I can help with a lot if you need.
 
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