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Wed, 15 Nov 2023 10:12:39 +0100

Sprite_tm

sprite_tm@social.spritesmods.com

Opened up a DAW module I bought at Apex Surplus after the Supercon. Well now, that was not an ISA I'd ever think I'd run into. Good thing I'm an ally.

(In picture: a PCB with a lot of components, centered on an IMST225 16-bit Transputer IC)

Wed, 03 Apr 2024 19:46:29 +0200

Ticktok

ticktok@fosstodon.org

@sprite_tm I wonder what that xilinx LCA is doing in there. That's an old part.

Fri, 05 Apr 2024 09:45:20 +0200

Sprite_tm

sprite_tm@social.spritesmods.com

@Ticktok It's handling the dot matrix displays. There's a bunch of them on the other side of the screen, and they need to be scanned continuously to display something. There's a 8K RAM connected to the LCA as video memory, and it reads it and scans the data out continuously. The config for the part actually is uploaded via the host, so I didn't have it. For a similar board with the same part, I recreated it, via an ancient version of the toolchain for it, in block diagram mode as the key for the Verilog stuff is unobtainable...