Re: gEDA-user: solder jumpers

2009-05-04 Thread Eric Winsor
DJ Delorie wrote:
> Had another idea for a solder jumper:
>
> http://www.delorie.com/pcb/solderjumpers.html
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We used bisected circle solder jumpers on the old Iomega Zip line of 
products.  They were much like your top right idea.  We included or 
excluded them in the solder stencil to get their default bridged or 
unbridged production state.  They were very small, maybe only a 
millimeter in diameter at the largest.
If I remember properly there were larger jumpers like them in the 
Commodore 1541 drive as well that were used to change the drive number 
so that multiple drives could exist on the same chain.

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gEDA-user: Digilent USB-JTAG and Lattice

2009-02-18 Thread Eric Winsor
I have been using the Digilent USB-JTAG cable to program Xilinx devices 
and now am working with some Lattice CPLDs in a new project.  Does 
anyone know of some JTAG programming software that will recognize the 
Digilent USB-JTAG cable and allow me to program Lattice parts?

Eric Winsor



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Re: gEDA-user: pcb, howto partition power planes?

2008-10-30 Thread Eric Winsor
Steve,

I don't see these other attempts.

Eric Winsor

Steve Meier wrote:
> Dave,
>
> No I struggled three times to get usable url's so go down a couple more
> of my attempts and then you will have to take the line breaks out of the
> ultra long url but you can get there.
>
> Steve Meier
>
>
> On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 16:29 -0400, Dave McGuire wrote:
>   
>> I don't see any URLs in there..
>>
>>   -Dave
>>
>> On Oct 29, 2008, at 6:08 PM, Steve Meier wrote:
>> 
>>> I went looking to see if the Analog Device book was available
>>> electronically. Here are the links.
>>>
>>>
>>> Steve Meier
>>>
>>>
>>> High Speed System Applications Table of Contents
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> High Speed System Applications Section 1: High Speed Data Conversion
>>> Overview
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> High Speed System Applications Section 2: Optimizing Data Converter
>>> Interfaces
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> High Speed System Applications Section 3: DAC, DDS, PLL's, and Clock
>>> Distribution
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> High Speed System Applications Section 4: PC Board Layout and Design
>>> Tools
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 13:44 -0700, Steve Meier wrote:
>>>   
>>>> I won't argue this point. I will refer every one to an Analog Device
>>>> publication "High Speed System Applications" copyright 2006 ISBN-10:
>>>> 1-56619-909-3  or ISBN-13: 978-1-56619-909-4
>>>>
>>>> In particular if you get a copy of this book (and they gave me mine)
>>>> look at pages 4.15 and 4.16
>>>>
>>>> There AD recommends connecting both of the A/D grounds "digital" and
>>>> "analog" to the analog ground plane "this is because it causes less
>>>> problems for the relatively small amount of digital return current  
>>>> to be
>>>> returned through the analog ground than it would to connect the
>>>> converter to the much noisy digital ground.
>>>>
>>>> There is a lot more talked about then just that one blurb.
>>>>
>>>> Steve Meier
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 11:22 -0700, Joerg wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Stefan Salewski wrote:
>>>>>   
>>>>>> Sometimes it is necessary/recommended to partition (separate)  
>>>>>> power or
>>>>>> ground planes, i.e. for ADC or DC/DC-Converters, see page 16 and  
>>>>>> 17 in
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://focus.ti.com/lit/ug/slwu028c/slwu028c.pdf
>>>>>>
>>>>>> We can do this in pcb program with (adjoining) polygons.
>>>>>> Disadvantage is, that if we change the size of one of the  
>>>>>> polygons we
>>>>>> have to manually adjust the other sizes. A other method may be  
>>>>>> so divide
>>>>>> a large polygon by copper clearing traces (with trace width zero).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This is related to my question from
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://archives.seul.org/geda/user/Sep-2008/msg00387.html
>>>>>>
>>>>>> but not identical.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> What is the best way to handle this?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 
>>>>> I can't speak to that but just one word of caution: In my 20+  
>>>>> years in
>>>>> engineering I have yet to see one case where splitting a ground  
>>>>> plane
>>>>> under high-speed ADCs has worked. Regardless of what application  
>>>>> notes
>>>>> say. Usually it didn't work, lots of noise. Or it kind of worked but
>>>>> fell apart the instant somebody whipped out a GSM cell phone or  
>>>>> BlackBerry.
>>>>>
>>>>> Myself, I never spilt a ground place. OTOH the industry practice of
>>>>> splitting planes is providing part of my income :-)
>>>>>
>>>>> The only time I split is where required for safety, for example  
>>>>> patient
>>>>> isolation per 60601 (ECG, ultrasound etc.).
>>>>>
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Re: gEDA-user: Trouble with an usb oscilloscope

2008-10-10 Thread Eric Winsor
Teodor,

I have not used your particular chip but have done USB with Cypress's 
8051 based controllers.  Are your samples going to a RAM and then sent 
across the USB bus from there or are you sending the sampled data 
directly to the USB bus buffer?

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Re: gEDA-user: printing gerbers in windows

2008-08-21 Thread Eric Winsor
If you are planning on printing on toner transfer paper and masking your 
copper with that, I believe that the ink jet will not work.  If you are 
using photo sensitive copper then an ink jet print on transparency will 
work, but you will need a negative image of your gerbers.

Eric Winsor

Robert Butts wrote:
> Can I print out the gerbers on a ink-jet photo printer?
>
> On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 12:54 PM, Philipp Klaus Krause <[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
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> Robert Butts schrieb:
> > I can't get my printer working yet in Linux and was wondering,
> in the
> > interum, is there a way to print gerbers in windows?  I'd like
> to make a
> > quick two-sided pcb.
>
> Print to a file in Linux. This will give you a .ps or .pdf. You can
> convert the .ps to a .pdf. Print the .pdf in Windows.
>
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Re: gEDA-user: yet another breadboard adapter

2008-07-07 Thread Eric Winsor
I've done the same thing with SMT .100 dual row headers and sockets.  
The .100 headers fit a piece of FR4 nicely down the middle.  I solder 
the header pins to pads on either side of the PCB.  Then I solder the 
SMT legs of the header to the socket.  What works best are the old 
sockets made for resistors like the Aries series 600 DIP headers with 
coined contacts.  When the parts bin is lacking these sockets I go for a 
Mill-Max machined socket because it provides sufficient exposed metal on 
the socket side to solder to.

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