TDL D-32 - 32K Dynamic
RAM Board.
This was TDL's
last board. It was advertised once in the July 1978 issue of Interface Age.
It is now a very rare board.
The board had the following
features:-
The D-32's high speed was based upon precise control of
timing and conservative design. It operated in S-100 bus systems with cycle
timing independent of the bus.
Memory cycle timing was derived from a precision digital delay line, which was
four times more accurate than other techniques at the time. Power consumption
was minimized by the performance of dynamic refresh cycles only when required
and by timing them with a 35khz oscillator. During normal program execution,
refresh cycles occur following instruction fetch (MI) cycles, and were fully
transparent.
The D-32 was, they claimed, as reliable as static memory boards, since close
attention was paid to the proper engineering discipline to maximize reliability.
These details included: the use of molded ceramic bypass capacitors for superior
noise immunity, keeping trace lines to the edge connector to a minimum to
suppress noise spikes on the bus. Precisely-controlled timing and a multi-layer
PC board with internal power and ground planes for superior noise immunity.
The D-32 had a fully-transparent, dynamic refresh. Each 4096 byte block was
addressable at any 4K page boundary. Extended address selection allows
expandability to one megabyte co-resident in the system.
Main Features:-
Static board reliability
32K byte memory
Fastest S-100 board available
Independently addressable 4-K blocks extended address selection for expansion to
one megabyte
5 megahertz typical performance, 4 megahertz worst-case
Cycle timing independent of S-100 bus
Precision digital delay line for highest speed
Fully-transparent dynamic refresh
Lowest power consumption
Internal ground plane to increase noise immunity
I do not have a manual for this board. If you have one please let me know.
Other TDL S-100 Boards
SMB
Z16-RAM
ZPU 32KRAM
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on 10/25/2013