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Reading G.I. SPRnnn External Serial ROM Content [message #10685 is a reply to message #10669] |
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jayindallas
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GI's target market for the SP0256 family of voice processors would generally require larger datastructures than its internal ROM, so the SP0256 was designed with a set of external, serial speech processor ROMs from the start.
The SP0256-AL2 that Radio Shack/Archer later sold as part of a simple Text-to-Voice chipset, is a standard SP0256 with a GI Allophone-based voice processor datastructure already loaded in its internal masked ROM, so it didn't require any voice processor datastructure development nor external serial ROMs, under GI's customer expected use.
SP0256 family chips function the same, only the ROM datastructure developed for each customer application, differs.
General Instrument Serial ROM for the SP0256
SPR016 Signal Function
SPR032 ======= =================================================
SPR128 ROM_ENA# Chip select to eliminate bus conflict at start-up
__________ SER_IN Serial input used to load 16-bit address
_| \__/ |_ SER_OUT Serial output to shift out data byte
VSS [_| 01 16 |_] C2 CS1 Chip select; will tri-state serial out when low
_| |_ CS2# Chip select; will tri-state serial out when hi
C3 [_| 02 15 |_] C1 ROM_CLK 1.56Mhz clock input from SPO256 Speech Processor
_| |_ VSS Ground pin
NC [_| 03 14 |_] SER_IN C1 Control state pin Nxx, most significant bit
_| |_ C2 Control state pin xNx.
ROM_CLK [_| 04 13 |_] NC C3 Control state pin xxN, least significant bit
_| |_ VDD Positive suppy pin (+4.6V to +7.0V)
NC [_| 05 12 |_] NC
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NC [_| 06 11 |_] VDD PART # Rom Size and Description
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CS1 [_| 07 10 |_] SER_OUT SPR016 2K bytes, serial read only memory
_| |_ SPR032 4K bytes, serial read only memory
CS2# [_| 08 09 |_] ROM_ENA# SPR128 16K bytes, serial read only memory
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A Method To Read The Contents of a SPR016, SPR032, or SPR128 External ROM
This method wraps the external ROM with a virtual interface to a SP0256, which is orchestrated by an Arduino UNO.
The ROM_CLK signal will not be free-running, because it needs to be Arduino controlled when shifting bits across the interface. When not shifting bits, the Arduino will insert a series of clock transitions, blindly, to give the SPRnnn a chance to use them, if needed to advance its state-machine to the next idle state awaiting a new control-state input. This applies to SPRnnn initialization too.
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Has anyone reverse engineered SP0256A external serial speech ROM
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Can the SP-0256A Speech Processor be Reverse Engineered?
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Reading G.I. SPRnnn External Serial ROM Content
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Method to read a SPRnnn External Rom with an Arduino
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Re: Has anyone reverse engineered SP0256A external serial speech ROM
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Re: Has anyone reverse engineered SP0256A external serial speech ROM
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Re: Has anyone reverse engineered SP0256A external serial speech ROM
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Re: Has anyone reverse engineered SP0256A external serial speech ROM
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Re: Has anyone reverse engineered SP0256A external serial speech ROM
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Re: Has anyone reverse engineered SP0256A external serial speech ROM
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Re: Has anyone reverse engineered SP0256A external serial speech ROM
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Re: Has anyone reverse engineered SP0256A external serial speech ROM
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Re: Has anyone reverse engineered SP0256A external serial speech ROM
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Re: Has anyone reverse engineered SP0256A external serial speech ROM
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Re: Has anyone reverse engineered SP0256A external serial speech ROM
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Re: Has anyone reverse engineered SP0256A external serial speech ROM
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Re: Has anyone reverse engineered SP0256A external serial speech ROM
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Re: Has anyone reverse engineered SP0256A external serial speech ROM
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Re: Has anyone reverse engineered SP0256A external serial speech ROM
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