kludge’s TF530 build

[PaulJ]

Have a 530 to destined for a mega but not building yet until I come up with a TOS 2.06 solution. Also planning on using a raspberry to program the CPLD's so I'll be following your progress. Good luck!

...or my lack thereof. Worst case I’ll have to replace the CPLDs, and I won’t order new ones until I’m ready to pull the trigger on CPLDs and RAM for TF534 as well. :)

Luckily I purchased my cpld's from Digikey and did order 4. So hopefully I'll have a couple left for the 534. Guess I'll consider the 530 practice. Have been practicing on some cheap eBay practice boards so I have gained some confidence. Found a flux I like and the microscope really has helped. On a side note I have been looking at the solder joints on some lead free and leaded stuff with the microscope. A newer lead free looks like crap and 30 year old lead looks great so it reenforces my decision to use leaded solder.

[kludge]

I’ll use leaded for as long as I can. Until the EU bans it completely. I have one roll of lead free solder that works reasonably well, but it’s no match for the leaded stuff :)

[kludge]

Goddamn commitments. I haven’t had time to look more at this yet. I’ve been building a bunch of WiFi modems for the C64 and I’ll be out and about this weekend and next week, so there won’t be much time left for the 530.

Good things come to those who wait.

[kludge]

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Oh yes. And this as well:

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# xc3sprog -v -c sysfsgpio -p 0 tf530r3/tf530r3_bus_top.jed:w
XC3SPROG (c) 2004-2011 xc3sprog project $Rev: 774 $ OS: Linux
Free software: If you contribute nothing, expect nothing!
Feedback on success/failure/enhancement requests:
        http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=170565
Check Sourceforge for updates:
        http://sourceforge.net/projects/xc3sprog/develop

Using built-in device list
Using built-in cable list
JTAG chainpos: 0 Device IDCODE = 0x49604093     Desc: XC9572XL
Device is blank
Programming Sector 107.
Programming  time 14928.7 ms
Verify Sector 107
Success! Verify time 2088.6 ms

And this:

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# xc3sprog -v -c sysfsgpio -p 1 tf530r3/tf530r3_ram_top.jed:w
XC3SPROG (c) 2004-2011 xc3sprog project $Rev: 774 $ OS: Linux
Free software: If you contribute nothing, expect nothing!
Feedback on success/failure/enhancement requests:
        http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=170565
Check Sourceforge for updates:
        http://sourceforge.net/projects/xc3sprog/develop

Using built-in device list
Using built-in cable list
JTAG chainpos: 1 Device IDCODE = 0x59604093     Desc: XC9572XL
Device is blank
Programming Sector 107.
Programming  time 15104.3 ms
Verify Sector 107
Success! Verify time 2218.3 ms

I guess it's time to solder up the rest of this sucker while I wait for the TF534 :)

[PaulJ]

Hi Kludge.. thanks for posting your experience with programing the cold's. Guess I should give it a try myself. :D :D :D

[kludge]

Hi Kludge.. thanks for posting your experience with programing the cold's. Guess I should give it a try myself. :D :D :D

Hi, and thank you! Yeah, this is nerve wrecking stuff doing it for the first time :D

[kludge]

First try: Nope.

The power light is however blinking instead of being static, so I guess something is at least happening. I will see if I can find my null modem cable to see if DiagROM is outputting something. But that's for another day.

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[8 Bit Dreams]

Set the clock jumper in other position and try again

[kludge]

Set the clock jumper in other position and try again

Tried it in both positions. It just happened to be in the wrong position when I took the picture. :)

But thanks for the hint!

[PaulJ]

Morning Kludge, had a chance to do look into the board yet? Any signs of life?