exxos blog - random goings on

[exxos]

My TOS206 boards come I guess I forgot to order a stencil Oh well, I'm going to build it anyway

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EDIT:

Now to check for those nasty shorts... (ran out of nasty trousers last week)

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[PhilC]

C- Must try harder. They say the old jokes are the best, in this case they are wrong

Boards look good though. Be out of date by the time I get one again?

[exxos]

C- Must try harder. They say the old jokes are the best, in this case they are wrong

Don't think I ever got a C, so thats pretty good for me

Boards look good though. Be out of date by the time I get one again?

Yeah probably

My test machine isn't booting currently I now understand why I stopped using the DIP 68K's... I seem to spend most of the day trying to get the Thing into the socket

[PhilC]

I usually give up and put some female headers onto the chip and leave them on

[exxos]

ah well arse biscuits!

It won't compile because of pin 38

When I did the lib I read it as "I/O Enable 1" When its actually "I/Output Enable 1" meaning I used it as a output pin, when its input only... feking datasheets

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[exxos]

So some track cuts and bodging... and now booting TOS206

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[rubber_jonnie]

Looks awesome!!

[PhilC]

Looks good to me, does the other bit work too?

[exxos]

Looks good to me, does the other bit work too?

You mean the booster ? Its being very fickle, been trying to work out why... it worked fine on the DEV-board

[PhilC]

Sods law, no differences between the dev board and that board