Spectrum Computing

I am in the middle of looking at generating timing sensitive code (SAM MOD player) and am surprised by the pc:1 x 5 contention on the last 5 t-states.

Based on http://www.z80.info/z80ins.txt

JR e 2 OCF(4) OD(3) IO(5)

So that's
- 4 t-state opcode fetch (memory access -> contended)
- 3 t-state opcode data (memory access -> contended)
- 5 t-state internal operation.

I did not expect an internal operation on the z80 to be contended?

And if I am reading what SimCoupe is doing correctly, https://github.com/simonowen/simcoupe/b ... e/Z80ops.h is simply adding 5 to the CycleCounter.

Stefan wrote: ↑Sun Aug 18, 2019 8:55 am I did not expect an internal operation on the z80 to be contended?

They're contended because the ULA doesn't look at the control bus for MREQ signals and the like and only respond to what it sees on the address bus which is the last address latched, or the address of the JR offset byte in this case.

The +2a/+3 does acknowledge these signals and those final 5 t-states are not contended.

Woodster wrote: ↑Sun Aug 18, 2019 9:45 am

Stefan wrote: ↑Sun Aug 18, 2019 8:55 am I did not expect an internal operation on the z80 to be contended?

They're contended because the ULA doesn't look at the control bus for MREQ signals and the like and only respond to what it sees on the address bus which is the last address latched, or the address of the JR offset byte in this case.

The +2a/+3 does acknowledge these signals and those final 5 t-states are not contended.

Aha - it's an (old) Speccy thing, so I am going to assume that the SAM Coupé is also sensible enough to leave them uncontended.

Thank you for clearing that up.

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Zoran wrote: ↑Fri Aug 16, 2019 1:50 pm Hello,

I am planning to start my own Spectrum emulator (yes, another one is just what is needed )

Dobro došao Zorane.
Glad to see some ex-yu Spectrum fans here and look forward to your future emulator.
Once again, welcome to this great forum.

Pegaz wrote: ↑Sun Aug 25, 2019 5:53 pm

Zoran wrote: ↑Fri Aug 16, 2019 1:50 pm Hello,

I am planning to start my own Spectrum emulator (yes, another one is just what is needed )

Dobro došao Zorane.
Glad to see some ex-yu Spectrum fans here and look forward to your future emulator.
Once again, welcome to this great forum.

Thank you!