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Looking for images of good 40007 gate array oscilloscope traces

Started by CaptainRon, 19:17, 26 July 22

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CaptainRon

I was poking around on my gate array and noticed my clock signal looks more like a pure sine wave than a square, so that has me wondering about the other signals. Does anyone know if there are images of proper gate array signals that I can compare against? I checked the service manual here on cpcwiki but didn't see any sample scope traces.
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Animalgril987

What's the bandwidth of your 'scope?
If it's not sufficiently high, it will falsely show rounding of the waveform.

CaptainRon

100Mhz 1GS/s Tektronix TDS2012.

Also, are the cycle rates supposed to be rock solid at 16Mhz, or is a little back and forth fluctuation normal?
If anything's gonna happen, it's gonna happen out there.

Bread80

In my experience the raw clock signal comping out of the GA is a little 'woolly' - probably because it seems to use an open collector output with pull-up rather than a push-pull output. I'd suggest probing it after the inverter (transistor on a 464, IC on a 6128) here it should be better formed.

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