On 1/11/02 at 1:28 AM Dexter wrote: >>> If you have any easier projects I could cut my teeth on, >>> I'd be happy. I'm not anything like the level of Nasta >>> and yourself. I'm just well equipped.
>> See the ideas about a Q40/60 speciffic IO card... :-) >I see them. :o) >Ok, if I can get something together and have tech/design support from the >Q60 and Goldfire teams, I can do this. >I could do a straight simple ISA implementation for the Q60, and a >schematically similar mezz card for the Goldfire which has maximum >shared components. No need for the mezzanine card, the required chips are found on the GF, in fact, even that part of the PCB has been designed! Normally I would not be againgst such a board, but as you know, the GF is intended to be a semi-SBC. > I have Eagle 4 Professional, which is half the tools for the job. Half? Actually, that would be all the tools :-) Oh... you mean an auto-router? I don't really believe in them :-) Well... actually, I do, but I simply can't afford one that could do a board better than I can - and ultimately, in the same time! For instance: GF IO part of the PCB requires 6 layers to route (I won't even tell you the number of vias it generates :-((( ), hand routing takes the same time, and needs 4 layers and about 0.1x the number of vias. It took the same only because I had to rip up most of what the autorouter did in order to get 100% routed and redo it by hand - the autorouter stuff was mostly in the way! > Does anyone think it might be appropriate to have a separate list > for ql-developers to separate the traffic from ql-users, or are > you happy for these kind of posts filling your list? :o) He he - and there is one. I though I was on it too. Unfortunately, I lost the subscription info... help, anyone? I could also cross-subscrive QLhardware, so it automatically keeps a message archive. Nasta
