How does this run at 14MHz?

[Sim085]

Some time ago, while browsing the Amiga Hardware Database I came across the ICD AdSpeed;

http://amiga.resource.cx/exp/adspeed

What I cannot understand is how does this run at 14MHz without any crystal? And if it uses the crystal on the A500 itself then howcome this runs at 14MHz while the CPU that comes with the A500 runs at 7MHz? At the end of the day aren't both connected to the same socket? I know for sure the CPU does nothing in this regard because I have a 12Mhz 010 which still run at 7Mhz. Therefore the AdSpeed board itself must be doing something to increase the 7MHz to 14Mhz... However cannot understand how this can be done without a crystal.

[zipper]

I think it just doubles the main 7.16 MHz. Seems it just uses looping data from cache but can't access the bus faster :

[hooverphonique]

One solution could be xor'ing two clock signals together, where one is 90 degress out of phase with the other, but I don't remember if such signals are available at the 68k socket.

[Sim085]

I belive what it says is that ChipRAM is accessed as 7MHz while the onboard RAM can be accessed at 14MHz. If it access the onboard RAM at 14MHz then doesn't that mean the CPU is also running at 14MHz?

Originally Posted by zipper

I think it just doubles the main 7.16 MHz. Seems it just uses looping data from cache but can't access the bus faster :

[LaBodilsen]

https://amiga.resource.cx/photos/pho...res=hi&lang=en

The Amiga 500 onboard crystal is running at 28.37516 mhz. Zoom in to the highres picture to ser it.

[Sim085]

Yes, but the CPU runs at 28.37516 mhz division 4 = ~7MHz. If you connect a 12MHz 68010 to the motherboard without additional hardware this still runs at ~7MHz. So the AdSpeed must be doing something to re-double this to ~14MHz.

Originally Posted by LaBodilsen

https://amiga.resource.cx/photos/pho...res=hi&lang=en

The Amiga 500 onboard crystal is running at 28.37516 mhz. Zoom in to the highres picture to ser it.

[roondar]

I'm not an electrical engineer, but as I understand it you can use circuitry to double the speed of clock speed signals. They probably used something that achieves that. But what and how, well... I don't know

[cpiac64]

on aminet you can find the schematics for run at 14mhz

[Exodous]

I don't know if this is how it's working, but the 74F86 is an XOR gate.

Take the oscillator input from the CPU socket to one of the XOR gate input pins.

Take the same oscillator input through a diode, which adds a delay, to the second of the XOR gate input pins.

With the appropriate diode, you get double the frequency at the output of the XOR gate.

In best ASCII tradition:

--- Osc In ---.--->|--- XOR IN 1 --\\--.
              |                    ||   >--- XOR OUT = Double Osc In
              \-------- XOR IN 2 --//--'

>| is the best I could do for a diode.

[Rotareneg]

A few inverters in series gets the job done too:

https://www.falstad.com/circuit/circ...XKNoJhPQEAJMQA

[nogginthenog]

Many years ago (1993?) I was living in the NL. I bought a 14MHz board from a guy at a local computer fair. Worked but the system clock run twice as fast!

Any ideas? Was it overclocking the CIA timers?

No idea where that A500 or the board are.

[hooverphonique]

Originally Posted by nogginthenog

Many years ago (1993?) I was living in the NL. I bought a 14MHz board from a guy at a local computer fair. Worked but the system clock run twice as fast!

Any ideas? Was it overclocking the CIA timers?

Yes, this is a common problem of simple 14MHz "accelerators". The CIAs are clocked by the 'E' clock signal from the 68000, which is doubled when you double the cpu clock. The 'E' clock is something like the cpu clock divided by 8 or 10, can't remember exactly.

[Rotareneg]

It looks like E clock output is connected to a trace that comes out from under the PLD, so maybe they're halving it there, which would only need a single flip-flop to do.

[Sim085]

I have read this elsewhere. Can the CIA chips not get the E clock signal from the CPU and instead have this provided from the original 7MHz - slowed to whatever value required by the CIA chips?

Originally Posted by hooverphonique

Yes, this is a common problem of simple 14MHz "accelerators". The CIAs are clocked by the 'E' clock signal from the 68000, which is doubled when you double the cpu clock. The 'E' clock is something like the cpu clock divided by 8 or 10, can't remember exactly.

[hooverphonique]

Originally Posted by Sim085

I have read this elsewhere. Can the CIA chips not get the E clock signal from the CPU and instead have this provided from the original 7MHz - slowed to whatever value required by the CIA chips?

Yes - check the schematics for Amigas with later/bigger processors (they don't have the 'E' output).