# Macintosh Classic II FPU card This repo contains a KiCAD design of an expansion card that adds an MC68882 FPU to your Macintosh Classic II. The board has two layers to keep the PCB cost down. It offers a switchable clock source between the system clock (16 MHz, synchronous operation) and a crystal oscillator on the board (40 MHz, asynchronous operation; tested with MC68882FN40A, the rumours claim 50 MHz will work too). ### Results After plugging in the card, it should be immediately visible in some tools (here System Information of MacBench): ![FPU card present in System Information](img/classic_ii_system_info.png) The board dramatically improves the Floating Point performance of the computer. MacBench 1.0 with an FPU@16 MHz (system clock) reports over a 13x improvement. When using an external 40 MHz oscillator, the Floating Point result goes up even a bit more - to 15.7x (it's not proportional to the clock frequency as at some point the slow 16-bit bus becomes a limiting factor): ![FPU benchmark showing Floating Point improvements](img/classic_ii_benchmark.png) (look at the Floating Point row) ### Order a PCB If you want to order a PCB directly, I have created a model on PCBWay: ### Bill of Materials | Qty | Value | Device | Package | Parts | Digikey reference | |-----|-----------------|--------------------|----------------------|--------------------------------------------------------|-------------------------------| | 1 | | MC68882FN40A | PLCC68 | IC1 | | | 1 | | PLCC68 socket | PLCC68 | IC1 | | | 1 | | TE 5-532955-8 | | J1 | A34313-ND | | 1 | | Pin Header 2.54mm | 3 pins | J2 | | | 5 | 100nF X7R | SMD capacitor | 0805 | C1-C5 | | | 1 | 10uF 10V | Tantalum Cap | A (3216) | C6 | 399-4788-1-ND | | 1 | 51 ohm | SMD resistor | 0805 | R1 | | | 1 | 40 MHz | Crystal oscillator | DIP-8 | X1 | | (sorry, I had most components at hand, so I only have Digikey references for the rather specific ones) ### Pictures ![FPU top](img/IMG_3241.jpg) ![FPU bottom](img/IMG_3249.jpg) ![FPU installed](img/IMG_3247.jpg) ### References The MC68000 KiCAD library from https://dev.sigpipe.me/DashieElectronics/Jackalope