<html><head></head><body>Do it! The more cards the merrier.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 11 May 2017 03:05:24 GMT+03:00, "Ismo Väänänen" <ismo.vaananen@gmail.com> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div dir="ltr">Hello,<div><br /></div><div>The recent talk about de-blobbing R8 and thus also GR8 inspired me to do a quick write up on how I see a Next Thing Co. GR8 System-In-Package chip being used in an EOMA68 compatible card. </div><div>The latest version of the write up can be found here:</div><div><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/oh2ftg/eoma68/eoma68-gr8">https://sites.google.com/site/oh2ftg/eoma68/eoma68-gr8</a><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>I named the project "<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana,helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px">EOMA68-GR8" because why not. </span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana,helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana,helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px">Like </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">Vincent I'm doing this on the side and also with Altium. </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">I haven't done anything this complex in Altium before it's likely going to be an interesting challenge. </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">GR8 has TTL/RGB LCD interface, USB2.0, I2C, SPI(SDMMC) and so on. </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">All the interfaces to make a compute card compatible with EOMA68 are there.</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">Except if I want the card to have "front facing" USB I'll need to include some USB HUB chip like TI TUSB2046</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana,helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px">, which conveniently has no firmware being a state machine. </span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana,helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana,helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px">I'll have to look at how the interrupts go, at AXP209 PMIC and it's routing.</span></div><div><font color="#000000" face="verdana, helvetica, arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13.3333px">And decide on if I'll layout the NAND as the talk about blobs being required for NAND support sounds worrying. That and seeing in general if even a half reasonable layout is possible on 4-layer FR4 to get cheaper rates on the pcb's. At least there's no DDR RAM to route, but the TTL/RGB fanout and length matching is gona be chore.</span></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="verdana, helvetica, arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13.3333px">One more good reason to learn how the automated length matching in Altium works. </span></font></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">Sourcing connectors and housings in small quantities. All that fun stuff. </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br /></span></div><div>If anything I have missed comes to mind please mention it, I'd rather hear it now then when I have prototype pcb's at hand or layout nearly done. <br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Ismo Väänänen de OH2FTG alias 2ftg</div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana,helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana,helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px"><br /></span></div><div><br /></div></div>
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