[Coco] Updated my CoCo3FPGA

Joel Ewy jcewy at swbell.net
Sat Oct 1 16:33:35 EDT 2011


On 10/01/2011 11:12 AM, John Kent wrote:
>
>
> On 2/10/2011 1:01 AM, Joel Ewy wrote:
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>> They had them on sale for about $2 each, and domestic shipping cost 
>> more than 2 of the boards.
>>
>> JCE
>
> Still a lot cheaper than making them yourself with the cost of PCB 
> artwork and getting them made.
> I was hoping to keep the end connector on the Spartan 3 starter board 
> free for an IDE/CF interface.
> It could also perhaps double as a 5V bus interface if you wanted to 
> connect a floppy disk controller to it.
> Just a thought.
>
> John.
>
Well, it doesn't take up all the pins.  You wouldn't be able to put a 
whole 16-bit address bus on there, but you could decode the address on 
the FPGA and just run some chip select signals out.

JCE




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