[Coco] Multi Pack Replacement

S Klammer sklammer at gmail.com
Mon Feb 23 12:10:12 EST 2015


You may have condidered this, but, could something like I2C be used to send
some signals to the 2nd pcb?

Shain
On Feb 23, 2015 9:55 AM, "RETRO Innovations" <go4retro at go4retro.com> wrote:

> On 2/23/2015 3:43 AM, Nick Marentes wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>>
>> An expansion connecter to accomodate a daughterboard?!
>>
>> Sound like a vaguely familiar idea... Yes, that would make a lot of sense.
>>
>> Nick
>>
>>  :-), I deserved that.
>
> I was originally thinking a pin header, to which a second PCB could be
> attached, such that the two PCBs were parallel, and the second one sat
> under the MPI PCB, making for a clean low profile design. The second PCB
> could be as long as the MPI (well, almost), giving plenty of space for
> connectors and such.
>
> Using a 40 pin edge connector is not ideal, since you'd probably want all
> of the "peripherals" on this second PCB to be individually selectable,
> which implies multiple scs/cts/cart signal lines.
>
> Jim
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