[Coco] SuperBoard Progress

[Mark Marlette]

At 12:12 AM 11/10/2003 -0600, you wrote:

Roger,

I can't. Only that we are working on it all the time. HUGE project being 
done in a series on mini(right!) projects.

Also forgot to add. We are looking at maybe adding PS2 mouse support along 
with the PS2 keyboard. This has been started and we are using an ATMEL AVR 
for this interface. I'm currently designing the CPLD code for this.

Yesterday I got the problem resolved in the Pro-Tector+ board, working 
perfectly now. I'm testing in different CoCo's now since they all seem to 
be slightly different...

The Ethernet board is a project that will conclude AFTER the SuperBoard is out.

Cloud-9 sales are WAY up so that slows me as well. Not complaining there. 
Just a one horse show at the MN facility. :)

Up early, time to get to the production area.....

Regards,

Mark


>Can you estimate a release date?  Will there be any support for TCP/IP, 
>even as an add-on?
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>At 05:58 AM 11/9/2003 -0600, you wrote:
>>All,
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>>Quick update on the SuperBoard's progress.
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>>We did have some problems with the IDE interface and we spent a great 
>>deal of time making the hardware faster and testing it. The optimizations 
>>did not pan out and we research and tested the heck out of it. Currently 
>>the SuperIDE board, which is going to be on the SuperBoard as an option 
>>is in it's final prototype turn. We also used this platform to make the 
>>SuperBoard's Expansion bus. This to was also done on the SuperIDE 
>>project. So even though the SuperBoard isn't completed a lot of the work 
>>is being done. The software drivers are being tested and complete also. I 
>>have a problem in my final prototype on this board and I'm tracking it 
>>down. Appears to be an equation problem in the CPLD that was cured by a 
>>non turbo mode burn on the last rev....IE: race condition.... UGHH. I'll 
>>have the 36 channel 10ns logic analyzer hooked up and trace it down and 
>>squash that bug. Again LOTS of testing.
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>>Pro-Tector+ which resides on the SuperBoard is also in it's final stage. 
>>I have found one problem in the last turn of the board and still have one 
>>minor problem. When the machine is turned on it doesn't always reset 
>>properly. Every line is buffered on the uP socket now.
>>
>>Once this is done all that will be left is to do the memory interface, 
>>bi-dir parallel port and the SuperROM hooks which is based upon the FLASH 
>>that is on the SuperIDE. :)
>>
>>It looks awesome!!!! Need to get the web page updated to reflect this 
>>work.....Never enough time...... :)
>>
>>Take care,
>>
>>Mark
>>Cloud-9
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