HP82143 Processor details
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11-11-2023, 01:50 AM
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RE: HP82143 Processor details
(11-10-2023 10:53 PM)brouhaha Wrote: I've started reverse-engineering the firmware. I've put what I've got so far into a git repository. Thus far I've figured out a little bit of the RAM usage, a little bit of the timer interrupt state machine, and a little of the communication to the NPIC chip. Excellent work. It looks like the dump was a good one, then. Have you looked at Ghidra? It is a reverse engineering tool that can be extended to handle unsupported processors for disassembly and decompilation, fairly easily. I extended it for the 6303 processor and it was relatively painless. Although with 2K to reverse engineer it's maybe not needed. As it looks like there's at least one more M3870 family ROM to extract in the future do you think it's worth updating the PCB with the level shifters that I needed to get the original circuit to work? At the moment anyone wanting to make a dumper would have to put those extra transistors on as a bodge. |
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