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Clock Frequency Clarification

A project log for HD6309 Singleboard Computer

Hitachi HD63C09 clocked at a blistering 3 MHz with a capacious 64K of RAM! Retroputing bliss...

tomcircuittomcircuit 06/05/2018 at 17:500 Comments

There are two oscillators on the SBC, Y1 and Y2.  Unfortunately, the information on what these are is missing!

Y1 is "XOSC" and is 24 MHz, from which the 3 MHz quadrature ECLK and QCLK signals for 63C09 U3 are derived inside of CPLD U7.

Y2 is "WOSC" and is 14.745 MHz, which CPLD U7 divides by 8 and 4 to produce the signals that are applied to SCC U5 ACLK and BCLK, respectively.

Below is a snippet from the HD6309_glue_top.vhd file documentation, which seems to be the only place I bothered to document this information :-/

entity HD6309_glue_top is
	port ( 
		XOSC : in std_logic;			-- Oscillator input for CPU (nominally 24 MHz)
		WOSC : in std_logic;			-- Oscillator input for ACLK/BCLK (nominally 14.745 MHz)

		QCLK : out std_logic;		-- Q phase clock output (nom 3 MHz, XOSC divided by 8)
		ECLK : out std_logic;		-- E phase clock output (nom 3 MHz, XOSC divided by 8)
		BCLK : out std_logic;		-- SCC ch B baudrate (WOSC/4 for SCC BRG)
		ACLK : out std_logic;		-- SCC ch A baudrate (WOSC/8 for 115.2kbps in SCC 16x mode)

Possible source for Y1 (DigiKey):  https://www.digikey.com/products/en?keywords=SER1213-ND

Possible source for Y2 (DigiKey):  https://www.digikey.com/products/en?keywords=SER1234-ND

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