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2015-05-19
05/29/2015 at 19:45 • 0 commentsConnected an MCP23S17 SPI-GPIO chip, first outputs are successful.
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2015-05-14
05/29/2015 at 19:43 • 0 commentsConnected a serial VFD 4x20 character display to a UART. Does not use SkinnyBus8, so it is cheating a bit...
Wrote code that scans all 4 slots and prints info about the slots to the serial port (VFD). PnP enumerator :D -
2015-05-13
05/29/2015 at 19:42 • 0 commentsExchanged the SRAM for EEPROM. Testing. Works as expected to read and write. Takes a bit of delay to complete writes.
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2015-05-10
05/29/2015 at 19:40 • 0 commentsBuilt another card, same as the other. Works with SRAM.
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2015-05-05
05/29/2015 at 19:39 • 0 commentsSome HW changes to get write protect of i2c working. Bus-board is 4 slots now.
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2015-05-03
05/29/2015 at 19:38 • 0 commentsAll connections soldered. SW tests are OK, except for I2C write protect.
20MHz SPI works properly now!!! Actually running at 21MHz due to scaler and base-frequency. 5% overclock SHOULD be fine for most chips. -
2015-04-29
05/29/2015 at 19:35 • 0 commentsBuilt a proper expansion bus board, and an SPI-SRAM card. The RAM-card still has some connections missing.
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2015-04-25
05/29/2015 at 19:33 • 0 commentsWent to an electronics hack/workshop with a friend, made some new friends. Connected the SPI-SRAM and got byte read/write to work. Also realised that the SPI-frequency is a multiple of the CPU-frequency, so I can't get 20MHz, only 21MHz. Running SPI at 10.5MHz to be safe for now. -
2015-04-23
05/29/2015 at 19:17 • 0 commentsMigrated to a larger board, everything tested to (still) work OK.
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2015-04-21
05/29/2015 at 19:14 • 0 commentsConnected another chip to the same I2C-bus. Using the 2 CS-lines it is possible to select which chip to use instead of addressing them separately. Another quick victory.
The board is getting crowded, time to move to something larger. And verify the i2c-speed, is it REALLY 400kHz?