[Coco] *SLENB behavior?

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On 11/10/2016 10:28 AM, Darren A wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 8:29 AM, Mark J. Blair wrote:
>
>> Program Paks simply connected CART* to Q, and the Multi-Pak MUXed the
>> CART* signals from each slot. The MPI also provided a 4.7k pull-up for each
>> slot's CART* signal. Either a totem-pole or wired-or driver should be fine
>> for CART*.
>>
>> NMI*, HALT* and SLENB* should be treated as wired-or signals, though, even
>> if some contemporary designs got that wrong.
>>
>>
> Yes, the HALT* line is another I forgot to mention.
>
> Although not strictly required in an MPI, I would still recommend any new
> design treat CART* as wired-or.  There are those who have long advocated
> modifying the MPI to tie all the CART* pins together and remove 3 of the
> pull-ups so that interrupts from a serial pak or other device are not lost
> when the slot is not active.  Of course you then have to be careful not to
> use any auto-starting program paks in the MPI, or put some tape over their
> Q or CART* pins.
>
>
> - Darren
>

It's a good callout.  I had the following for the CART line:


assign cart =                    (autostart ? q : 'bz);

so, I changed it to:


assign cart =                    (autostart & !q ? 0 : 'bz);

To cover the use case you're describing.

Jim

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