Re: gEDA-user: series terminators

2006-09-22 Thread Dave McGuire
On Sep 22, 2006, at 2:16 PM, DJ Delorie wrote: Ahh, I'm using the CY7C1049 in some of my stuff. Did you need terminators? Nope. (eZ80F91 @ 50MHz, 3.3V, nothing else on the bus) -Dave -- Dave McGuire Cape Coral, FL ___ geda-user mai

Re: gEDA-user: series terminators

2006-09-22 Thread DJ Delorie
>Ahh, I'm using the CY7C1049 in some of my stuff. Did you need terminators? ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: series terminators

2006-09-22 Thread Dave McGuire
On Sep 22, 2006, at 11:13 AM, DJ Delorie wrote: I don't know what chips you're using, For completeness, M32C/83 and CY7C1049B Ahh, I'm using the CY7C1049 in some of my stuff. Now I'm as cool as DJ. =) -Dave -- Dave McGuire Cape Coral, FL ___

Re: gEDA-user: series terminators

2006-09-22 Thread DJ Delorie
> I don't know what chips you're using, For completeness, M32C/83 and CY7C1049B ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: series terminators

2006-09-21 Thread Evan Lavelle
After all that, I forgot to mention the line length. Rule of thumb: if the first reflection gets back to the driver before the driver has finished transitioning, then you probably don't have a problem, and you don't need termination. In your case, that's 12", or about 1ns. So, if your drivers h

Re: gEDA-user: series terminators

2006-09-21 Thread DJ Delorie
> If you can afford a 4 layer, you can definitely afford a faster scope. It's not just the cost, it's the justification and size. I just got a 500MHz logic analyzer that's the size of my hand (Intronix Logicport) and I have a 32Ms/s parallel-port scope (er, about 10-15MHz) and a Tek 561A (er, ab

Re: gEDA-user: series terminators

2006-09-21 Thread Darrell Harmon
On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 01:48:48PM -0400, DJ Delorie wrote: > > > > Double sided, 0.062. > > > > How quaint. ;-) > > Yeah, well, it's just going to sit on my desk anyway. Plus, it's > panelized with the challenge boards, so cost is an issue. I was extra > careful about adding planes to the bo

Re: gEDA-user: series terminators

2006-09-21 Thread Evan Lavelle
DJ Delorie wrote: I'm thinking I should design in some series resistors on the address and data lines for my RAM expansion board (30MHz, about 6" of 8 mil trace on DS FR4, 5v). How does one go about calculating an ideal resistance? The mcu spec doesn't have a min rise time spec, the ram chips a

Re: gEDA-user: series terminators

2006-09-21 Thread DJ Delorie
> > Double sided, 0.062. > > How quaint. ;-) Yeah, well, it's just going to sit on my desk anyway. Plus, it's panelized with the challenge boards, so cost is an issue. I was extra careful about adding planes to the bottom side, and bypassing all over the place. The proto-pcb industry is star

Re: gEDA-user: series terminators

2006-09-21 Thread ldoolitt
DJ - On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 12:18:46PM -0400, DJ Delorie wrote: > Double sided, 0.062. How quaint. ;-) The board I'm in the middle of bringing up is 6-layer, 0.045. I've probably linked to it before: http://recycle.lbl.gov/llrf4/ So the distance between a trace and its ground plane is an orde

Re: gEDA-user: series terminators

2006-09-21 Thread DJ Delorie
> 5 Volts? How quaint. Yeah, well, that's what the eval board uses. My furnace controller uses 5v too, because that's what the LCD panels need. It throws in a bunch of issues about level converting, though. > You didn't give the thickness of the FR4 between the trace and the > ground plane.

Re: gEDA-user: series terminators

2006-09-21 Thread ldoolitt
DJ - On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 11:47:38AM -0400, DJ Delorie wrote: > I'm thinking I should design in some series resistors on the address > and data lines for my RAM expansion board (30MHz, about 6" of 8 mil > trace on DS FR4, 5v). 5 Volts? How quaint. You didn't give the thickness of the FR4 bet