Kn/vDGood news everyone! :-)
During the weekend I designed secondary revision of the PCB1 (that's the main board), which upgrades the PIC32MX470 to PIC32MZ/EF chip. These two are not exactly pin to pin compatible, but they are very close, and the luck was heavily on my side as well, so all the differences turned out to be pins that are not used by the internal sub-systems, so the entire exercise rendered a PCB1 which only has a couple of pins on the expansion connector differ from the original 2M board.
Of course the 2M² variant is still 'blank' as there is no software ported for it, but there are a few viable options out there that might fit right into it.
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One highly desirable option would be Ethernet. I think there is a PIC32 variant that has it.
How I would like to use it : as a "smart console" for interacting with the #Discrete YASEP
I would have to implement the assembler, disassembler and other routines in the MIPS system but that would be awesome...
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A FPGA option is on my list :)
This new upgrade does not replace the original mx470-based board but only provides a choice for configurations. The same stands for any future PCB1 variants as well.
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I would LOVE to:
* make it foldable
* replace the PIC32 with a YASEP in FPGA :-D
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