SNES frequesncy, duty cycle and TTL levels?

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SNES frequesncy, duty cycle and TTL levels?
by on (#107365)
I was asked this question and I didn't really know the answer....
AT THE CARTRIDGE CONNECTOR, I was asked this question:
What frequency, duty cycle, and logic level (TTL [5v], LVTTL [3.3v], other)?

Logic level I know is 5v
Frequency I assume is 21.47727 MHz. IS this correct (at the cart connector)?

Duty Cycle??????

Thanks
Mark
Re: SNES frequesncy, duty cycle and TTL levels?
by on (#107366)
http://wiki.nesdev.com/w/index.php/Cartridge_connector

What signal would you want to know the duty of? Because I'm pretty sure there's the clock..R/W pin...and that's it?
Re: SNES frequesncy, duty cycle and TTL levels?
by on (#107368)
Duty cycle of the clock. Not sure why it wouldn't be 50%. Puzzled as to why this would be relevant. Maybe if one was probing around and identifying the line not by its physical location, but merely the signal on it.
Re: SNES frequesncy, duty cycle and TTL levels?
by on (#107369)
3gengames wrote:
http://wiki.nesdev.com/w/index.php/Cartridge_connector

What signal would you want to know the duty of? Because I'm pretty sure there's the clock..R/W pin...and that's it?



?NES clock the same as SNES?

A friend was wanting to use the clock signal as a reference for an external timer. So I wasn't sure if the clk freq was the same on the cartridge connector as the rest of the system.
Re: SNES frequesncy, duty cycle and TTL levels?
by on (#107370)
Ah, I'm too used to NES development, hah. But this page has that info:

http://wiki.superfamicom.org/snes/show/ ... 26+Pinouts
Re: SNES frequesncy, duty cycle and TTL levels?
by on (#107380)
CPU_CLOCK (Super NES Game Pak pin 57, which corresponds to Famicom/NES M2) might not be 50% duty when the CPU is accessing slow memory.