Amiga 500 68HC000 @ 14 MHz accelerator (phase 1)

A new month, a new project. This is the first phase of the 68k (maybe 020, 030 later?) accelerator card for the Amiga 500.

The roadmap is:

1. Getting the bus from the motherboard CPU
2. Resolving the E clock issue, as the MB CPU always generates the E clock, even when it is not a bus master
3. Designing an external 7 MHz CPU board, with asynchronous CIA access (using the MB E clock)
4. Accelerating the system to 14 MHz (sync mode) or 16 MHz (async mode) 
5. Fixing the DTACK issue when accessing the amiga bus (chips)
6. Adding own dynamic RAM running at 14/16 MHz

Steps 1-4 are complete, the system is running stable at 14 MHz. As the program is running from the Amiga's RAM, the speedup is very tiny (cca. 12%) as visible on the screenshot below.

Like my other projects, this card is also built on a home made 2 layer PCB:

And some CPU measurements at 7 and 14 MHz:

7 MHz normal CPU cycle (7M clock, /AS, /DTACK)

14 MHz CPU cycle with unmodified /DTACK (14M clock, /AS, /DTACK)

14 MHz CPU cycle with delayed /DTACK (14M clock, original /DTACK, delayed /DTACK, /AS)

Kefmania running at 14 MHz

Powerpacker measurements also confirm the 12-13% speedup, as expected.

More details are coming soon. Stay tuned! :)