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Flashy Clock - Yet another DEV board

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Oh god, am I volunteering myself for more testing?
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rubber_jonnie wrote: Thu Apr 25, 2019 11:22 pm Oh god, am I volunteering myself for more testing?
You safe for a while :)
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exxos wrote: Thu Apr 25, 2019 11:37 pm
rubber_jonnie wrote: Thu Apr 25, 2019 11:22 pm Oh god, am I volunteering myself for more testing?
You safe for a while :)
Phew! :)
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Two more boards on the Icky production line

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Nice :coolpics:
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Well thats todays production line finished

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Very nice! :thumbup:
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Nice to see this making such progress...how is the s/w for it coming along?

I've programmed other Flash memories using this AMD-type programming pattern (Transputers, SHARC DSPs, ColfdFire v2 & various ARM cores) so if I can help, give me a shout!

My GEM programming is very rusty though (not done any this century) but some of the lower level driver stuff is much more current.
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JezC wrote: Sun May 12, 2019 9:32 pm Nice to see this making such progress...how is the s/w for it coming along?
No software started at all, we have no hardware to write it for yet...
JezC wrote: Sun May 12, 2019 9:32 pm I've programmed other Flash memories using this AMD-type programming pattern (Transputers, SHARC DSPs, ColfdFire v2 & various ARM cores) so if I can help, give me a shout!

My GEM programming is very rusty though (not done any this century) but some of the lower level driver stuff is much more current.
We will most likely need help, I can probably write a quick and dirty tool to do the job, we do need software developers to code better software for all this stuff.
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Some of you may have been following the threads on the progress Exxos and I have been making on the Flashy Clock board. https://www.exxosforum.co.uk/forum/viewt ... 320#p23834

Exxos has been honing his programming skills in getting the software working to program and test the RTC module and the Flash on the board. Well we are now at a point where everything is working as expected with these boards.

I am just in the process of testing the remainder of the boards we have built from this dev cycle but we will need some hands on volunteers to help test and also improve on the program to use the board. I'll let Exxos chime in on this as to next steps.

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A little later I will post a video of the board being programmed with TOS104, TOS206, EMUTOS and KAOS images and booting from them.
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