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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):
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):
(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
References
The MC68000 KiCAD library from https://dev.sigpipe.me/DashieElectronics/Jackalope