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This is part of a project to build a complete, functional, extremely basic microcontroller. It is built using multimedia logic.

This section is a simulated very simplified DMA.

Example Run
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The test of writing back and forth bytes seems to work.

Also, the example from the lab specification seems to work. Namely:

Download:
-Select head 1, track 2, sector 3, block 4 on the disk.
-Select address AB on the RAM.
-Select 6 bytes to transfer.
-Select download.
-Disable the master clear.
-Hit the transfer button. The yellow download LED should illuminate.
-Hit the clock at least 7 times. Your transfer should stop after the 6th cycle, illuminate the green completion LED, and
deactivate the yellow download LED.
-You should see 6 different bytes transfer from disk blocks 4 through 9 from head 1, track 2, sector 3 to RAM addresses
AB through B0, respectively. The particular bytes depend on how you organized the address space on your “disk.”
Upload:
-Select head 2, track 3, sector 4, block 5 on the disk.
-Select address AC on the RAM.
-Select 2 bytes to transfer.
-Select upload.
-Hit the transfer button. The yellow upload LED should illuminate.
-Hit the clock at least 3 times. Your transfer should stop after the 2nd cycle, illuminate the green completion LED, and
deactivate the yellow upload LED.
-You should see 2 bytes transfer from RAM addresses AC and AD to disk blocks 5 and 6 on head 2, track 3, sector 4.
These should be the second and third bytes you saw in the download example.

Known Issues
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You can’t have reads/writes across different tracks or heads, which will produce (perhaps to the user) unexpected results, overwriting the same sectors rather than proceeding to the next track. In short, reading/writing across tracks requires multiple reads/writes.

I made a conscious decision to not worry about the clock wrapping around at this point. If the clock does wrap around, it may screw stuff up.

Screen Shots
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Here is a link to the source.

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