**** BEGIN LOGGING AT Fri Feb 03 10:59:56 2006
Feb 03 13:00:11 <prpplague> lovely my ft2232 chip arrived
Feb 03 13:05:11 <vmaster> Amontec is working on a nice design, got a prototype yesterday. Matchbox size, auto-voltage sensing 1.5v to 5v. Though I have no idea how much they're going to charge for it
Feb 03 13:05:40 <vmaster> FT2232 based
Feb 03 13:06:03 <prpplague> vmaster: yea, we are looking to do a custom design ourselves
Feb 03 13:06:36 <prpplague> vmaster: mainly just interested in 3.3v version for some ARM stuff
Feb 03 13:06:52 <vmaster> yeah, currently, 3.3v seems to be enough
Feb 03 13:07:02 * prpplague has ton of work to do, and isn't motivated to do anything
Feb 03 13:07:07 <vmaster> heh
Feb 03 13:07:37 <vmaster> had the first of three exams today... and a severe lack of motivation regarding the other two exams...
Feb 03 13:07:50 <prpplague> ahh
Feb 03 17:55:38 <beewoolie-afk> [g2]: ding
Feb 03 18:11:54 <ka6sox-office> dong, the witch is dead!
Feb 03 18:38:36 <beewoolie-afk> :-)
Feb 03 18:39:17 <beewoolie-afk> ka6sox-office: Should openwince's jtag detect the flash memory on the SLUG?
Feb 03 18:40:33 <ka6sox-office> dyoung has done that and I think the answer was yes
Feb 03 18:47:28 <beewoolie-afk> I wonder if I have a salted slug on my hands...
Feb 03 18:48:19 <ka6sox-office> ouch
Feb 03 18:49:18 <beewoolie-afk> Huh.  The other day, when I tried to detect, it didn't work.  It works today, tho.  Good news for me.
Feb 03 18:49:26 <beewoolie-afk> I'm working on my BSDL bus driver.
Feb 03 18:49:31 <beewoolie-afk> on the Xscale.
Feb 03 18:49:57 <[g2]> beewoolie-afk awesome
Feb 03 18:50:02 <beewoolie-afk> [g2]: Hey
Feb 04 00:25:19 <AchiestDragon> ka6sox-office:  ping 
Feb 04 03:08:55 <AchiestDragon> ka6sox ping 
Feb 04 03:17:03 <ka6sox> AchiestDragon, pong
Feb 04 03:18:03 <AchiestDragon> just wondering if you know how much the 2vp20 chips are , xilinx dont have them in the buy online section 
Feb 04 03:18:28 <ka6sox> lemme check my osources
Feb 04 03:18:37 <AchiestDragon> k
Feb 04 03:25:04 <ka6sox> grrr ....o0ffline
Feb 04 03:25:13 <ka6sox> hopefully they will be back soon
Feb 04 03:52:18 <beewoolie-afk> w00t.  Got BSDL scanning on the SLUG.
Feb 04 03:56:43 <lennert> beewoolie-afk: nice
Feb 04 03:57:34 <lennert> AchiestDragon: xc2vp20-5ff1152c for $418 in 1q
Feb 04 03:57:35 <beewoolie-afk> From here on, it's all just writing code.
Feb 04 03:57:54 <AchiestDragon> ouch
Feb 04 03:58:20 <lennert> xc2vp20-5fg676c0939 for $262 at 100+
Feb 04 03:58:29 <lennert> i use http://www.em.avnet.com/
Feb 04 03:58:31 <beewoolie-afk> Oh my, is that the FPGA chip you folks want to use on the JTAG board?
Feb 04 03:58:47 <lennert> beewoolie-afk: i wouldn't ;-)
Feb 04 03:59:16 <lennert> the xupv2p comes with an xc2vp30, which is $700-$800 in 1q.. :-/
Feb 04 03:59:38 <AchiestDragon> not on the jtag board at that price 
Feb 04 04:00:00 <lennert> anyway.. 5am, time for me to go drive home at 250 km/h :P
Feb 04 04:00:43 <beewoolie-afk> lennert: wear your hat!
Feb 04 04:01:03 <AchiestDragon> beewoolie-afk:  the fpga on the jtag board is about $26
Feb 04 04:01:10 <AchiestDragon> in q1
Feb 04 04:01:14 * beewoolie-afk mops his brow
Feb 04 04:01:29 <beewoolie-afk> AchiestDragon: How are we doing with all of that?
Feb 04 04:01:47 <AchiestDragon> good
Feb 04 04:01:57 <lennert> beewoolie-afk: i will :)
Feb 04 04:02:10 <beewoolie-afk> How long before you think you'll have boards made?
Feb 04 04:02:38 <AchiestDragon> working on the last 2 adaptors atm ,, the 14pin omap/ ti tms , then just the final user configurable adaptor to sort 
Feb 04 04:03:00 <beewoolie-afk> I'm not wanting to hurry you.
Feb 04 04:03:07 <beewoolie-afk> I'm just curious.
Feb 04 04:03:09 <AchiestDragon> well looking to order the boards at end of month 
Feb 04 04:03:30 <beewoolie-afk> I should have a working application after a week's worth of work
Feb 04 04:03:32 <AchiestDragon> then maybe a month to get the bits together to put on them 
Feb 04 04:03:55 <beewoolie-afk> Are you going to be programming te FPGA?
Feb 04 04:04:39 <AchiestDragon> yes , but with software you can fix it later , with hardware its better to check and recheck first , as changing it later is harder
Feb 04 04:05:59 <AchiestDragon> well theres the fpga and 3 cpld's to program up , 
Feb 04 04:24:30 <beewoolie-afk> AchiestDragon: I don't know what you mean about software can be fixed later.  I'm just saying that I'm going to be ready for the hardware pretty soon.
Feb 04 04:24:48 <AchiestDragon> k kool
Feb 04 04:25:13 <beewoolie-afk> And, I was wondering about who was going to be writing the FPGA code.  I'm not qualified.
Feb 04 04:25:48 <beewoolie-afk> And you probably know, we've been talking about doing some hardware for some time. At least a year.
Feb 04 04:26:17 <beewoolie-afk> It's great that we finally have a design going through.
Feb 04 04:26:46 <AchiestDragon> what i was trying to say is the schematics and pcb artwork should be ready in the next couple of days , but it will be longer before i send it of for first batch of pcbs , as it needs checking a few times first 
Feb 04 04:27:37 <beewoolie-afk> Excellent.  I'd offer to help do some checking were I able to offer much.
Feb 04 04:28:02 <AchiestDragon> ka6sox and someone else are doing the cpld code atm 
Feb 04 04:28:17 <beewoolie-afk> Great.  What are the CPLDs going to control?
Feb 04 04:28:34 <AchiestDragon> fpga to pc104 bus 
Feb 04 04:28:45 <beewoolie-afk> Ah.  Bus timing.
Feb 04 04:49:19 <lennert> home schweet home
Feb 04 05:21:21 <ka6sox> hi
Feb 04 05:23:03 <ka6sox> been writing tonight..so not chatting much
Feb 04 06:03:50 <beewoolie-afk> ka6sox: excellent.
Feb 04 06:04:24 <beewoolie-afk> I hope I'll have something useful in a week or two.  Something that will replace the functionality of openwince jtag for our targets.
Feb 04 06:05:53 <ka6sox> very cool
Feb 04 06:06:02 <ka6sox> back in a few
Feb 04 06:06:12 <beewoolie-afk> Have you looked at the protocol I designed?
Feb 04 06:32:38 <beewoolie-afk> NN
Feb 04 06:44:42 <AchiestDragon> http://www.whipy.demon.co.uk/sch.pdf     all done :)  and  http://www.whipy.demon.co.uk/pcb.pdf  
Feb 04 06:59:00 <ka6sox> sweet.
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