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title: "Hardware Design"
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permalink: /docs/hardware
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exerpt: "TommyPROM Arduino EEPROM programmer software design"
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---
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## Basic Hardware Version
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The hardware uses an Arduino to write data and to toggle control lines with the
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appropriate timing to access the PROM. A pair of 74LS164 serial to parallel shift
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registers latch the address lines. Use of the shift registers allows the Arduino to
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control up to 16 address lines using only 3 output ports. This design will read and
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program the 28C series chips and can read most other parallel ROM chip families.
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The basic circuit is as follows:
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* Pins D2..D9 are wired to the data lines on the target PROM.
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* Pins A0..A2 are wired to the WE, CE, and OE control lines on the target PROM.
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* Pins A3..A5 control shift registers to produce the address lines.
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* Pins D10..D12 control A<sub>16</sub>..A<sub>18</sub> for chips larger than 64K bytes.
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Note that the existing design uses 74LS164 shift registers, but another 8-bit parallel out
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shift register, like the 74LS595, can be used instead with some pin changes. See the
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[74LS595 Shift Registers](#74ls595-shift-registers) section below for details.
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The two shift registers can produce a sixteen bit address, although the 28C256 only needs
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15 addresses. Chips larger than 64K are supported by using the shift registers for
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A<sub>0</sub>..A<sub>15</sub> and connecting Arduino pins D10..D12 to the chip's
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A<sub>16</sub>..A<sub>18</sub>
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[](images/TommyPROM-nano-sch.png)
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## 74LS595 Shift Registers
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When using the [74LS595](images/TommyPROM-595.jpg) instead of the 74LS164, there is
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an additional output latch that is pulsed to put the contents of the shift register on the
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output lines. The code supports the 164s or the 595s by default. No code changes are
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needed to use either version of the shift register hardware.
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The table below shows the connections when using either the 74LS164 or the 74LS595 for the
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address shift registers. USR refers to the Upper Shift Register
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(A<sub>8</sub>..A<sub>15</sub>) and LSR refers to the Lower Shift Register
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(A<sub>0</sub>..A<sub>7</sub>).
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|Arduino |74LS164 |74LS595|
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|:---: |:---: |:---: |
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|A0 |ROM WE |ROM WE|
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|A1 |ROM CE |ROM CE|
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|A2 |ROM OE |ROM OE|
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|A3 |USR CLK |USR SRCLK|
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|A4 |LSR CLK |LSR SRCLK|
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|A5<sup>1</sup> |LSR+USR A |LSR+USR SER|
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|D2..D9 |ROM D<sub>0</sub>..D<sub>7</sub> |ROM D<sub>0</sub>..D<sub>7</sub> |
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|D10..D12<sup>2</sup>|ROM A<sub>16</sub>..A<sub>18</sub>|ROM A<sub>16</sub>..A<sub>18</sub>|
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|D13<sup>3</sup> |-- |LSR+USR RCLK|
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Notes:
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1. The data pin on A5 is connected to both the Upper Shift Register (USR) and the Lower
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Shift Register (LSR).
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2. The upper address lines are not needed for 28C64 and 28C256 chips, but are used for
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larger chips like the 27C040.
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3. The D13 pin controls the output register on the '595 shift registers. This pin is not
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connected when using the 74LS164.
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Note that the 74LS595s have two additional pins that need to be connected.
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* An output enable pin, labeled as either G or OE in the datasheet, must be tied LOW for
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both chips or else they will not produce any signal on their output lines.
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* A reset pin, labeled as RESET or SRCLR, must be tied HIGH for both chips or else the
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shift registers will be held in a reset state.
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## Ben Eater EEPROM Programmer
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If you are here because you built the [Ben Eater EEPROM
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Programmer](https://github.com/beneater/eeprom-programmer), note that the designs are
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similar, but the TommyPROM code will not run on that hardware without some significant
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changes. If you just need to unlock the Software Data Protection (SDP) on a chip, then
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see the
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[unlock-ben-eater-hardware sketch](https://github.com/TomNisbet/TommyPROM/tree/master/unlock-ben-eater-hardware)
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for a solution. That sketch is purpose-built to run on the Ben Eater hardware directly
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and it **will not work** with the TommyPROM hardware.
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If you want the functionality of the TommyPROM software on the Ben Eater hardware, the
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easiest path is probably to modify the hardware to match the TommyPROM software rather
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than trying to change the pin assignments in software. There are a few reasons for this:
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* The Ben Eater hardware uses D13 to control the ROM's Write Enable pin and it ties the
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Chip Enable pin to always be active. The D13 pin is connected to the Arduino's built-in
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LED, which blinks at boot. This means that the chip is likely writing some random data at
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boot time. This isn't a problem for the Ben Eater sketches, because they always write
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their own data to the chip anyway. One use of TommyPROM is to just read data from a chip,
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so a random write on boot would be bad.
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* The OE pin is controlled by the Address shift registers. This doesn't work well with
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the modular architecture of TommyPROM and it definitely would not work with 74LS164s
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because it would toggle the OE pin as new addresses are shifted in.
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* The direct port write software is a bit complicated and is more difficult to modify than
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just renaming a few pin #defines. This was done for performance reasons, particularly
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for the SDP timing, but it means that the code is not easy to change.
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Changing the hardware is fairly straightforward. The data lines move 3 pins from D5..D12
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down to D2..D9. Most of the ROM and shift register control lines move over to the A0..A5
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pins. The upper shift register is controlled directly from the Arduino instead of being
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connected to the overflow of the lower shift register. All of the connections are in the
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chart in the section above.
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## Intel 8755A Hardware Version
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The Intel 8755A uses a multiplexed data and address bus, plus 3 additional address lines.
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Most Arduino hardware has enough pins to support this directly, so no additional hardware
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is needed for addressing. An Arduino pin is also used to drive the ALE latch pin.
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The 8755A requires the Vdd pin to be be switched between 5V and 25V during the programming
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of each byte. A simple transistor circuit is used for this. No voltage regulator circuit
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is present here for the programming voltage. Because this is designed as a quickly
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assembled hardware design, a triple output bench supply was used to provide the 25.5V,
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5.5V and 5V outputs.
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[](images/TommyPROM-8755A-sch.png)
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Eagle-format schematics can be downloaded from the
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[hardware project page](https://github.com/TomNisbet/TommyPROM/tree/master/hardware).
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