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Cumulus incompability solved, i think.
Posted: Sun Oct 08, 2017 1:46 pm
by zaxon
Some Oric not working with Cumulus, here is small circut for mod Bus board what can help .
This circut improve O2 signal from CPU to Cumulus.
Desolder U1 pin 11 from bus board. Desoldered pin is connected to 74HCT123 pin 2 (O2IN signal )
From pin 1 74HCT123 connect ( signal O2OUT) to pad where was pin 11 of U1 soldered before.
I hope this help. Also soon i recive fixed PCB for busboards so if somebody need one let me know.
Re: Cumulus incompability solved, i think.
Posted: Sun Oct 08, 2017 1:53 pm
by Dbug
Your improved bus board is compatible with the original Cumulus built by Retromaster and Metadata?
Re: Cumulus incompability solved, i think.
Posted: Sun Oct 08, 2017 2:02 pm
by zaxon
I build some cumulus few months ago too and i build next few soon . Yes, orginal busboard for Cumulus like this, is modded
Re: Cumulus incompability solved, i think.
Posted: Sun Oct 08, 2017 5:16 pm
by ibisum
Cool! I haven't run into this issue with any of my Atmos's yet, but its good to know you fixed this!
Re: Cumulus incompability solved, i think.
Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2017 7:41 pm
by Godzil
It may hide the problem for some people, or create new for other.
Try and see but I can't promise that it will really fix for everyone.
The real problem is in the CPLD, the code do a lot of things wrong, and we can't update the existing one in the field (nor I would recommend to be honest).
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After looking at the signal on an oric that "fail" the signal that arrive on the cumulus is clean, there is no weird issue there, but the signal is slightly temporarily shifted from another oric that works, the CPLD code handling Phi2 is doing something, if not wrong, terribly incorrect and can't cope well if Phi2 is not in the window that this code expect.
If you remember on the Microdisc, there is a potentiometer to set the Phi2 shift internally. That is because not all oric have the exact same timing on Phi2, there is a general setting that work for most, but some are problematic and we need to trim that potentiometer. The current cumulus CPLD does not permit that.
Edit2: your change is basically adding some delay to the Phi2 signal,and is somewhat similar to what the Microdisc is doing. Don't set a fixed value to the resistor, but use a potentiometer to be able to adjust the timing or your change will fail on some oric that were working before if your change put Phi2 out of the window that the cumulus is expecting.