dml attempts a Raven

[dml]

Hoho - almost a trap!

Presumably its ok to use a 20-pin ATX supply, in the 24-pin socket, so long as it's seated towards the correct end? Normally this is ok and the pins are keyed anyway.

Still... the seatbelts are off :P

[dml]

Ok so I went ahead with the 20pin ATX and after some confuse regarding the power button on the Raven and the ATX missing a fan - so it appeared not to do anything when powered on - I have made some successful measurements.

I did this with the big ATF chip removed since they're annoying to source if something went wrong.

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I'm seeing:
- no flames (!!!)
- 5v on the 5v headers
- 3.3v on the 3.3v headers
- 24MHz on the SMD oscillator I was concerned about being backwards
- 48MHz on the main oscillator

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Some of the chips are getting warmish but nothing unusual. The MFPs and the GALs mainly.

I'm not seeing the clock on the CLK pin of the 060 socket - I guess that's because Nessi is missing and the signal routes through there?

Anyway I feel a bit more confident now about proceeding with the ATF programming step.

[PhilC]

Good luck starting off at 96mhz. Hoping your chips are fine at 48.

[dml]

Ok after some time with the schematic, I can see PCLK->CLK:060 is controlled by J102, which I have left open. That explains why I didn't see activity on the PGA socket.

[dml]

Good luck starting off at 96mhz. Hoping your chips are fine at 48.

:thumbsup:

I did manage to obtain a 40MHz oscillator after a bit of a wait and made sure there is a socket so if things go badly I should be able to swap it :)

[agranlund]

Wohoo! ATF's and MFP's getting a bit warm sounds normal to me.

If you jumper J102, J104 and J105 to the topmost positions you should be getting a valid the PCLK signal on the CPU socket.
(You will need Nessi for the CLKEN signal though)

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[dml]

Thanks! I had almost figured that out but not quite :-) I could see 48Mhz on J102 but was looking at J104 to see how it gets involved.

I'll set up the jumpers and see how it looks.

[dml]

So with this config, I don't see anything on the CPU socket.

I do see 48MHz on the innermost pin of J102 (the not-jumpered pin) but nothing on the jumpered pair.

[dml]

Correction!

I do see 96MHz on the CPU socket, just at a lower voltage range - my trigger was not set correctly for it so it just became noise in this scope's digital mode.

[EDIT]

The CLK signal at the CPU is about 1.3v pk-pk which seems quite low, is that normal?

[agranlund]

The CLK signal at the CPU is about 1.3v pk-pk which seems quite low, is that normal?

I'm far from an expert on it, but I think that's likely due to the fast signal for the oscilloscope and/or probes.
My 50mhz, 500MSa/s starts acting the same but already at lower frequencies.