This board is
a digital output board. It has an 8-digit LED
hexadecimal display and a 32-bit LED binary display. The
board accepts byte, word, and long-word data and all
data written to it is latched and presented visually on
the two displays in both hexadecimal and binary.
The board base
address can be set to any one of the 256 64K pages
addressable by the 68000 via DIP switches.
The 8-digit LED
hexadecimal display is made up of four pairs of digits,
associated with each digit pair is an 8-bit LED binary
display. The digit pairs and associated binary displays
are addressed as follows:
Base
address +0 |
B |
B |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
Base
address +1 |
- |
- |
B |
B |
- |
- |
- |
- |
Base
address +2 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
B |
B |
- |
- |
Base
address +3 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
B |
B |
This board can
be extremely useful for program debugging purposes,
especially when no other output device is available. The
contents of a 68000 register or memory location can be
written to the board for visual validation by the simple
addition of one extra line of source code - a standard
68000 MOVE instruction is all that is required with the
destination operand set to the base address of this
board. |