After almost a year (2019)of on-again, off-again, development we finally have a new revision of the KIM Clone.
It has everything the previous versions have, but with a few improvements people have asked for (or I wanted):
Expansion bus connectors! This was widely requested. Includes most processor signals, address and data buses, along with bank decoding lines. This is intended to plug into either a prototype board (more on this later) or a motherboard (in the works).
More jumpers to enable/disable blocks of RAM from being decoded. K1-K4 each have jumpers, and 8K blocks for the entire memory map have another set of jumpers. This allows blocks to be disabled on-board, then mapped to a user-supplied circuit.
Power on reset. Not a major feature, but I didn’t like having to press RS every time I turned on my KIM-1.
Power connector and the power switch moved to the top edge of the board.
KIM-1 Clone Rev 5 User manual | |
KIM-1 Clone Rev 5 User manual, other version |