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Not a question but a suggestion. You should also do a similar article for the 8061 series processor. This was a special processor used at least in the Ford EEC-
by thrtythreeforty 2y ago
Not a question but a suggestion. You should also do a similar article for the 8061 series processor. This was a special processor used at least in the Ford EEC-IV (Fox body Mustangs, 1990s F-150s, etc), notable for its very wacky "M-BUS" memory bus. They wanted to conserve pins (I guess for more GPIO) so they replaced the normal bus with a bidirectional 8-bit bus, with a couple registers set in the memory chip which represent the data pointer or program counter. At any point the processor can request data from either of those two pointers with a couple dedicated signals STB, IT, and DI, and the program counter pointer is supposed to auto-increment.
The whole thing is a very complex pair of state machines and it'd be interesting to go over the protocol. It's been documented in a difficult-to-read Ford programmers guide, but largely unheard of otherwise.
- kens 2y agoThat seems like an interesting, but obscure processor, maybe a little too obscure, even though it spawned the 8096 (MSC-96) line.