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The TFE adapter plugs into the cartridge expansion port on the back of
the Commodore 64. It does not require any extra hardware. The TFE
consists of one CS8900a based Embedded Ethernet board
and some simple glue logic for interfacing with the C64.
The glue logic and the Embedded ethernet board is mounted on a custom
created PCB for which the schematics can be seen below. The schematics
and the layout were made using Orcad and the PCB was created at the
ELAB electronics society of the Royal Institute of Technology in
Stockholm. Many thanks for their help!
The C64 8-bit data bus and the low 4 bits of its address bus are
directly connected to their equivalents on the CS8900a ISA bus. The
IO/1 and the R/W signal from the C64 are used to create the ISA
control signals using the 74LS139 decoder. The ISA signal address
enable is always active (tied low) and IO/1 is connected to the gate
of the decoder.
This effectively maps the 16 bytes of IO memory on the CS8900a
making it accessible to the 6510 CPU at $DE00-$DEFF (obviously
$DE00-$DE0F is mirrored into $DE10-$DE1F, $DE30-$DE3F etc).
PCB layouts
Amund Gjerde Gjendem's layouts
Amund Gjerde Gjendem's revised TFE layouts with extra jumpers makes it
possible to choose the I/O memory area (i.e., $DE00-$DE0F,
$DE10-$DE1F, $DE40-$DE4F, or $DE50-$DE5F). The layouts are avaliable
here (in PDF format): side 1, side 2, the silk
layer. Many thanks for his work!
The original faulty TFE layouts
BEWARE this layout is currently
FAULTY. The read and write signals for the Embedded ethernet board
were switched. Several hours of debugging and some external wires were
spent because of this silly mistake. (As can be seen on the pictures.)
Schematics
Our original schematics show how it
should have been done (and is currently not reflected by our faulty
layout).
$Date: 2002/10/17 19:25:07 $
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