Today I received the game cartridge boards and they came out great. The edge contacts are gold plated and the bottom edge of the board has a chamfer to aid in insertion. It should have taken a few minutes to test the board out, but like all things in life, it ended up taking well over an hour.
It did not work on the first try. I got my multi-meter out and found that a pin didn't make contact with the pad. I fixed this and it still didn't work. I then went into panic mode, pulled up the data sheet for the FRAM and double checked everything. The design looked good. Finally I decided to build a 2nd one and it worked perfectly. I guess I killed the first one. I am not sure if it was too much heat while soldering, or having perhaps VCC disconnected while trying to operate the rest of the chip?
In any case, at least I got it to work!
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