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(C) - André Fachat

News:

• 2010-01-12 During the developement of my RAMDisk board I had a very good discussion with Bil Herd, the principal design er of the Commodore Plus/4, C16/C116, and the much more successful Commodore 128, in which I learned a lot about hardware design in a mass production setup. Here is a summary of our discussion about the use of DRAM and schematics and board design in general.
• 2010-08-29 Added the page about my new oscilloscope.
• 2010-04-21 Updated the page about the Xilinx CPLD tools with the GHDL simulation tools description
• 2010-04-12 Added a page about the Xilinx CPLD tools I am using for my newest designs.

Quickfinder

• Hardware design lesson - the designer of the Commodore 128 talks with me about hardware design (2010).
• Xilinx tools - My experience with the Xilinx CPLD design tools
• Oscilloscopes - My experience with my new oscilloscope
• RDY generation - generate RDY for slow devices (CMOS CPUs only, 2006).
• UART serial interface - use an UART chip for a high speed RS232 using its builtin FIFO buffer in a 6502 system (1997).
• Infrared remote control - control your home equipment with your 6502 :-) (1997)

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