[Arm-netbook] SHIPPING!: EOMA-68 Micro Engineering Boards

[Christopher Thomas]

On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 5:57 PM, Christopher Thomas <
christopher at firemothindustries.com> wrote:

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> On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 5:29 PM, luke.leighton <luke.leighton at gmail.com>wrote:
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>> On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 8:17 PM, Christopher
>> <christopher at firemothindustries.com> wrote:
>> > Given the issue with the uarts, Is it too far fetched to consider the
>> differential pairs got swapped? (I.e. pin 68 isn't actually going to SATA
>> B- and so on...)
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>>  http://hands.com/~lkcl/eoma/a20_sata
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>>  doesn't look like that's the case.
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>> > I know all the pins on the MEB match the PCMCIA connector. But perhaps
>> the 68pin on the cardedge is misrouted on the a20 card. (Which would
>> require soldering as you mentioned. )
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>>  looks fine to me but could use a double-check.
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>> > Also, everyone might want to look at their card edge connectors on the
>> a20 PCB. Tried booting up one of mine and it worked and then halted. Looked
>> at the connector and saw pin 66 and pin 33 were slightly bridged (tiny tiny
>> blob of solder was in a peak pointed at the connector )
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>>  that's bad.  thanks for the heads-up.  something to watch out for in
>> QC (for production).  i just bridged a couple of those pins, whoops
>> they're absolute sods to clean out.
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> Yeah they are.  Just checked my other one, no bridge, but for some reason
> the area near the end (68pin side), looked kinda "nasty", almost like
> whoever/whatever was soldering was worried about interference with the
> <b>resistors</b> or some such in that area.
>

Woops, I meant capacitors.


> l.
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