Testing a 6200 and comparison with 6100

The 040 bus clock is definitely going to be a multiple of the PPC clock... anything else makes the bus adaptation logic much more complicated than it already must be. As Phipli said apple almost certainly specified the ASIC for operation at 40mhz speeds but what configuration (ie. Programmable wait states) is required to support that remains to be seen. Again recommend referencing the memc documentation for some examples of how different DRAM grades work into 040 bus cycle timing. Something like 4-2-2-2 is more likely; 2-1-1-1 is the minimum cycle and difficult to achieve.

The 60mhz clock would be for the valkyrie private framebuffer DRAM only; that being uncoupled from the bus clock would be normal and expected. Similar to what the Epson chip on my 30video cards does, this should run as fast as practically supported by the DRAM in order to maximize bandwidth.
 
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