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RamZilla
and NoCan Timing Waveforms
This is a 'scope photo showing the auto-refreshing waveforms. Between
the two vertical lines are the auto-refresh parts of the waveforms. This
portion is during non-cpu time (video time, because the signal HSync is
at a logic low) and only during HSync or VSync time. Between the vertical
lines, there is NO video, so refresh is done automatically by swapping
RAS for CAS at the SIMMs. This forces the SIMMs to do internal auto-refresh
by themselves. Just to the right of the second vertical line is the CPU
access, notice E is high. After HSync goes high, the next video access
(go past E, where E is low) is a normal video access. Notice that RAS and
CAS have normal widths, just like the CPU accesses. When this photo was
taken, this coco was running at double speed, 1.79MHz. These waveforms
were measured on the second version of RamZilla and are identical to NoCan's
style of refreshing.