Thursday, November 24, 2022

reZet80 SCOUT - CPU & memory

The reZet80 SCOUT uses the reZet80 CPU bus specs R2 (release 2).
For a single-board computer (SBC) the reZet80 CPU card is integrated into the mainboard.
Please check the reZet80 CPU card R2 and the reZet80 CPU bus specs R2 for the specs.
The schematics (including power on/off and reset switches and power LED and connectors):
The 64 KiB address space of the Z80 is divided into 2 banks of 32 KiB each:
The reZet80 SCOUT is equipped with 1 KiB of RAM and 2 KiB or 4 KiB of ROM provided by two 2114 chips and one 2716 or one 2732 chip, respectively. Only one ROM socket is provided due to space limitations.
The schematics for RAM, ROM and the 74LS139 demultiplexer:
The demultiplexer is also used for addressing the input and output ports that will be covered next.