The CT63
is a CT60 with the following changes :
- no Falcon motherboard boost.
- no CPU temperature.
- the oscillator is replaced by a Frequency Synthesizer programmable from 33 to
110 MHz.
Do
you still enjoy to compile with speed of a snail?
Wish
to surf the Web in quick and
enjoyable manner?
Calculate
pictures under POV, creating a DTP and Graphics in proper high speed?
Run
suitably applications as one to encode MP3 or a console Java under Mint?
Wish
to keep your software library in its entirety?
You
still have a hard time abandoning you favorite environment of your Falcon with
all its charm?
Why leaving his sound system, DSP and all the connectivity ? (SCSI, MIDI,
Joystick ports, etc...)
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search is over, an accelerator of
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FEATURES
(MB=MegaBytes)
- 68060 (with FPU & PMMU) at
selectable clock from 80 to 100 MHz.
- Bus CT63 at 80 to 100
MHz : SDRAM & 060 BUS accesses.
- SDRAM PC133 (CL2) at 80 to 100
MHz with BURST accesses & page HIT on open
banks.
- 1 SDRAM PC-133 socket for 64 MB to 512 MB.
- FLASH
of 1MB with BOOT, 060 INIT, TOS4 + patchs. Can be easely updated !
- Switch to commute between the 060 and the 030 of the Falcon.
- 100%
Falcon 030 mode available. The 68882 is available with the
030 mode.
- Easy fitting WITHOUT SOLDERS in the original Falcon
case, without the Falcon power
supply that is replaced by an external standard
ATX power supply (or into an ATX tower).
- 060 Bus Slot for adding a daughter card (EtherNAT).
PROCESSOR
The 060 Rev.6 is
guaranted for 90 MHz and can run at 100 MHz in 90% of cases and 105 MHz in some
cases.
The
060 and its wonderfull computing
power :
|
CPU
|
MIPS
|
FACTOR
|
| 68060
@ 100 MHz (CT63 with Mask 1E41J) |
147 |
25,5 |
| 68060
@ 75 MHz (Motorola specs 2001) |
110 |
19.1 |
| 68060
@ 66 MHz (CT63) |
96.8 |
16.8 |
| 68060
@ 59 MHz (HADES60) |
86.5 |
15.0 |
| 68040
@ 40 MHz (AB40 / Motorola 2001) |
44 |
7.6 |
| 68040
@ 32 MHz (HADES40 & AB40) |
35.2 |
6.1 |
| 68040
@ 25 MHz (MILAN40) |
27.5 |
4.8 |
| 68030
@ 50 MHz (CT2) |
18 |
3.1 |
| 68030
@ 32 MHz (TT030) |
11.5 |
2.0 |
| 68030
@ 16 MHz (Falcon & Motorola 2001) |
5.76 |
1.0 |
RAM
CT60
is the first TOS product with SDRAM !
| PRODUCT |
BUS |
RAM |
READ |
WRITE |
FACTOR |
| CT60 (060@100MHz)
|
100
MHz |
SDRAM |
104.4
MB/s |
102.8
MB/s |
22.9 - 18.7 |
| CT60 (060@
66MHz)
|
66 MHz |
SDRAM |
68.4 MB/s |
67.4 MB/s |
15.0
- 12.3 |
| HADES60
(060@59MHz) |
29.5 MHz |
EDO |
43.4 MB/s |
34.1 MB/s |
9.5
- 6.2 |
| MILAN40
(040@25MHz)
|
25 MHz |
EDO |
35.7 MB/s |
21.5 MB/s |
7.8
- 3.9 |
| CT2b
|
50 MHz |
EDO |
32.4 MB/s |
38.7 MB/s |
7.1
- 7.0 |
| AB40 |
32 MHz |
FPM |
34.6 MB/s |
17.0 MB/s |
7.6
- 3.1 |
| MEDUSA
T40 |
16 MHz |
FPM |
20.0 MB/s |
21.9 MB/s |
4.4
- 4.0 |
| TT030
TT-RAM |
16 MHz |
FPM |
12.6 MB/s |
15.6 MB/s |
2.8
- 2.8 |
| TT030
ST-RAM |
16 MHz |
FPM |
7.9 MB/s |
7.9 MB/s |
1.7
- 1.4 |
| FALCON+MAGNUM |
16 MHz |
FPM |
5.7 MB/s |
6.9 MB/s |
1.25
- 1.25 |
| FALCON (VGA16c) |
16 MHz |
FPM |
4.55 MB/s |
5.5 MB/s |
1.00
|
(MB=MegaBytes)
- ALL TESTS REALIZED WITH NEMBENCH 2.1
FITTING
: SOLDERS FREE !
CT63
is PLUG'N PLAY !
-
The
previous accelerator boards always required you cut and solder on
the motherboard, but now thanks to a revolutionnary hardware
design, the mainboard is not touched by the fitting.
From a base Falcon,
there are ANY SOLDERS to fit
the CT63 !
-
The Falcon mainboard is not
boosted.
-
The CT63 can work with a boosted Falcon
mainboard (except with
CT2).
060
BUS SLOT
CT63
is evolutive ! The 060 busses (Data, Add & Control) are
present on two HE13 Male connectors of 2x25 pins, giving a total
of 100 pins.
The
first add-on card that will be available is an EtherNAT
& SuperVidel card (100% Videl
compatible).
The software & hardware developers are
welcome.
FALCON
BUS CARDS
Some Falcon
add-on cards are
compatible with the CT63 !
Eclipse,
Screen Eyes, Expose & Nova can be used
with CT63 because CT63 don't modify the hardware of Falcon Bus
(no solders for the fitting).
The CT63 don't give you a new Falcon bus slot because it is not
needed ! The method is simple : solder two Male/Male HE13 connectors (2x15
& 2x25 pins) on this old card and plug the CT63 on it ! Sure, in
this configuration the keyboard is out of the Falcon case !
Fitting a
Nova Video card : http://www.tobiashagemann.de/ct60/ct60.html
Fitting a
Expose card : http://jcb.killer.free.fr/Comtos/ma%20config/Ma%20config.htm
ATX POWER
SUPPLY UNIT (PSU)
CT63
needs a voltage of 3.3V and 8 Amperes at least for the 060, the SDRAM, the 060 BUS port, the logic and the
buffers, and the
Falcon power supply would have been not sufficient in the case of
a 5V->3.3V expensive and poor rating voltage regulator on the CT63. An ATX
power supply is absolutely required to replace the Falcon power
supply and free the area for the CT63.
ATX
power supplies (ON/OFF AC switch is recommended) are
available anywhere. The smallest model is the one for the FLEX
ATX standard. This last one can be
put into the falcon origin case between the CT63 and the rear border with the
condition you cut a rectangular opening in the top plastic cover...
There are too
some very small power supply units : http://www.mini-box.com/
ATX TOWER
The CT63 is featured with a HE13 connector for the features found on
the front of a modern tower : POWER Led, IDE Led, RESET push button, POWER push
button. Plus (no more present on the ATX tower) a NORMAL/TURBO switch you will have to fix
somewhere.
-
With
the POWER switch, you can power on your falcon. You have to
understand that the ATX power supplies (in the major cases) have
no more 120/240V ON/OFF switch because they are drived by the
ACPI modern OS functions allowing to set the computer in a 'standby' or 'suspend' mode instead of turning OFF the power
supply. This low power setting is done by the power push button
of the tower, and the CT63 is managing this feature !
-
A
SLEEP function (SLP) was even added in the hardware and
manageable by a software (an ACC or a CPX) to 'sleep" the
machine (like the windows menu).
The
Power Led has a double utility managed by the CT63 : When the
power supply is ON, the led lighting normally, and when the power
supply is suspended (off in fact), the led is lighting weakly
indicating that your machine is OFF but stills connected to AC
power.
FALCON MODE
The
030 allows you to launch the old & rare software that cannot run on the
060 and to program the TOS in the CT63 FLASH (if the flash is crashed and you
cannot boot from 060 !).
The Flash can be accessed by the 030 and by the 060 and will
allow all developers to modify and personalize their machine as
they want.
The Falcon mode is your original Falcon and give you the
inssurance that software run like previously. The Coprocessor 68882 stills
usable with 030 (not with 060 sure !).
