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by legacy
Tue Feb 02, 2016 12:56 am
Forum: Hardware
Topic: non volatile RAM disk, looking for the cheapest storage chip
Replies: 10
Views: 1719

Re: non volatile RAM disk, looking for the cheapest storage


It is possible to write one byte at a time, but the byte must be erased


Parallel flash chips (e.g. Spansion) usually need to erase the whole page and you can't erase just a byte, I am not sure about the byte-erase, btw, supposing you can't, I was thinking about a sort of write-back mechanism ...
by legacy
Mon Feb 01, 2016 7:45 pm
Forum: Hardware
Topic: non volatile RAM disk, looking for the cheapest storage chip
Replies: 10
Views: 1719

Re: non volatile RAM disk, looking for the cheapest storage

about the above idea: FeRam-Serial

about parallel NvRam, CY14B108L seems interesting :D
by legacy
Mon Feb 01, 2016 3:26 pm
Forum: Hardware
Topic: non volatile RAM disk, looking for the cheapest storage chip
Replies: 10
Views: 1719

Re: non volatile RAM disk, looking for the cheapest storage


The serial flash is definitely not random-access


a flash chip is randomly-accessable ONLY in read mode, there is no problem about that
troubles come when you have to write because you have to erase things "per page" before you can write on it
this makes flash writable per page-oriented instead ...
by legacy
Mon Feb 01, 2016 2:52 pm
Forum: Hardware
Topic: non volatile RAM disk, looking for the cheapest storage chip
Replies: 10
Views: 1719

Re: non volatile RAM disk, looking for the cheapest storage

ummm, I'd rather avoid the flash technology if it's possible, I do not like it at all

I can put a CPLD in the middle
in order to translate an asynchronous data access into synchronous SPI serial access
with a FIFO under the hood, of course

p.s.
no problems with voltage level shifters :D
by legacy
Mon Feb 01, 2016 2:18 pm
Forum: Hardware
Topic: non volatile RAM disk, looking for the cheapest storage chip
Replies: 10
Views: 1719

Re: non volatile RAM disk, looking for the cheapest storage

GARTHWILSON wrote:
The 4-megabyte 10ns module I offer is much, much cheaper and smaller, and can be battery-backed
oh, good, and interesting, with two of those modules I will be completed :D
by legacy
Mon Feb 01, 2016 1:52 pm
Forum: Hardware
Topic: non volatile RAM disk, looking for the cheapest storage chip
Replies: 10
Views: 1719

non volatile RAM disk, looking for the cheapest storage chip

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I am trying to add a storage device to my board, I'd like to have something as big as possible
my board has 5 slots, each slot is capable to address up to 16 Mbyte over a 32bit parallel bus

currently in ...
by legacy
Mon Feb 01, 2016 1:50 pm
Forum: Hardware
Topic: Has anyone an EagleCAD library for XC95144 ?
Replies: 3
Views: 1195

Re: Anyone have a Eagle Cad lib for XC95144 ?

yes, but it takes effort and skills, and so I ask
by legacy
Thu Jan 28, 2016 4:11 pm
Forum: Hardware
Topic: Had needed an EPROM emulator
Replies: 12
Views: 1862

Re: Had needed an EPROM emulator

SoftTec has a great EPROM emulator, but it's LPT driven
by legacy
Thu Jan 28, 2016 4:08 pm
Forum: Hardware
Topic: Has anyone an EagleCAD library for XC95144 ?
Replies: 3
Views: 1195

Has anyone an EagleCAD library for XC95144 ?

hi
I am designing a 6809 board with Eagle/CAD, I can't find a valid device XC95144 & XC95108 (they are 5V CPLD), I have found an old library called XILINX.lib but my Eagle v7.2 says that it's too old. Does anyone happen to have a library with these XC95xxx device on hand ?

thank you in advance
by legacy
Wed Jul 29, 2015 12:29 pm
Forum: Programming
Topic: a little interpreter
Replies: 5
Views: 1385

Re: a little interpreter

I might implement these features :D

actually I am working on advanced lexer, planning to support an advanced interpreter (with functions, type checking, etc)


# eval 1+(2.2*3.0E9+ ( 0xdeadbeaf logicalAnd 0xffffffff ) )

yards analysis: PASSED
stack analysis: PASSED

rpn_v[]={ 0 3 5 4 8 10 9 6 1 ...
by legacy
Tue Jul 28, 2015 12:49 pm
Forum: Programming
Topic: My own little assembler
Replies: 6
Views: 2063

Re: My own little assembler

I have been coding for weeks a little lexer, now it's quite working and I have also implemented an RPN parser
it looks this way (I have posted a few lines)

is there any source of your project ?
by legacy
Tue Jul 28, 2015 12:45 pm
Forum: Programming
Topic: a little interpreter
Replies: 5
Views: 1385

Re: a little interpreter

any comment ?
by legacy
Tue Apr 14, 2015 11:09 am
Forum: Programming
Topic: a little interpreter
Replies: 5
Views: 1385

Re: a little interpreter

i added a sub-repo with a standalone project about a mini calculator
by legacy
Mon Feb 09, 2015 4:30 pm
Forum: Programming
Topic: a little interpreter
Replies: 5
Views: 1385

Re: a little interpreter

i added few examples



Program factorial
Begin
Input n
factorial = 1
While n > 1
Begin
factorial = factorial * n
n = n - 1
End
Output factorial
End



Program test_prime
Begin
Input n
c = 2
is_prime = 1
While (c < n / 2) & is_prime
Begin
If n % c == 0
Begin
is_prime = 0
End ...
by legacy
Thu Jan 29, 2015 12:50 pm
Forum: Hardware
Topic: VDU, V9958
Replies: 26
Views: 6707

Re: VDU, V9958

i have redesigned the VDU V9958 (and its package 1.778mm) as Eagle/CAD library's item