MiniMig with AGA

[wizard66]

Yaqube and I are in discussion about the first expansion board, which will contain USB and Ethernet as a minimum.  

/Mike

Can you guy's concider to put a RTC on the expansion board if possible ?

[wizard66]

Yes, I'm currently working on it.

Yaqube your the best ;-) (as always)
looks like a nice expansion board, i'm in for one no matter what !!
Keep us posted on your nice design for the replay addon board, I already have your ARM conntroller board for the Minimig and this is also a quality design product.
Looking forward to this new replay addon board.

[wizard66]

The Xilinx's (FPGAs) have just arrived!

Good news Mike ;-)

[wizard66]

So what sort of speed are we looking for this fpgaarcade Amiga, is it going to be as fast or faster than a 68030 at 50mhz or not? :-)

Nope it's not faster then a 030 50Mhz.

The softcore speeds are:

TG68K @ 7.09 MHz : 4.27 x A500 / 1.85 x A1200
TG68K.C @ 7.09 MHz : 5.81 x A500 / 2.52 x A1200

[wizard66]

It's a bit quiet here !!!
any word about the production date ?
This waiting is killing me ;-)

[wizard66]

I think Bill McEven has some production plans.. ;-))

Oh noooo.. LOL
don't make jokes about serious stuff like this ;-)

[wizard66]

Hi Mike,

I send the parts of to china with DHL express (shiping cost divided over the forst 50 board).
You can get the boards there for around 150€ thats a lot cheaper then in europe.
And the production can start tomorrow you say ;-)

I think this is quicker and cheaper, but I will be in for one if you decision is to produce it localy.

[wizard66]

True, but I don't want to commit all the parts for 50 boards without testing a few first.
Locally, I can get 10 made, test them and hopefully build the rest immediately.

If I got everything set up in China (set up cost is more expensive, per board cost a lot cheaper) then if there was a pcb issue I would have 50 scrap PCBs and have to pay the NRE again to fix the issue.

Cheers,
Mike

Fair enough, I can see this problem, nobody wants to waste 50 boards ;-)
Just make the board localy then the prize looks okey for me.
I don't mind spent the extra euro's for the first batch. (I JUST GOT TO HAVE IT)
Heat up the solder irons. :-)

[wizard66]

Should happen this week. The missing connector I have been waiting ages for arrived today.

I am packing the kit of components now.
/Mike

The Stress is killing me ;-) Nice going MikeJ.
We all look out to your product.

[wizard66]

Nice Going looks like the boards are comming to live this week ;-)
I hope the production run of the first 10 boards go without any problems.
My cash is burning a hole in my pocket, I realy look forward to this board.
Keep up the good work MikeJ...

[wizard66]

Well, sadly the board will not make it to AmiWest. I'm in Taiwan at the moment and I didn't receive the boards back from production before I left. In fact they have been very quiet so I'm a bit concernced.

I'll have to send the boys round when I get back ...
/Mike

Hmmm,
I hope that there is no f****up with the production of the first ten boards, but the silents is nog a good sign indeed.
I hope you will get some explanation soon from them !
This is a bit of a disapointment ;-(
Hope to here soon from you again when you get back @homebase.

[wizard66]

Good news Mikej,
keep us posted,  i hope that testing the first boards go without trouble.
So the remaning board will come out the production like hot cakes... :-))

[wizard66]

Latest update, the boards have been shipped back to me so I hope to get them before the weekend

There is a video of the production as well, but I haven't got it yet.
/Mike

Looking forward to the video, of the production process ;-)
When your boards check out okey, what's the estimeted time to produce the other boards,
I mean do you have to wait for a open slot again or is all set to go @ your signal?

This are good times for us all fellow amigain's I Love this project..

[wizard66]

Got the boards!
I'll put some pics up on http://www.fpgaarcade.com asap.

Congratulations MikeJ

Now this board's looks sexy, I hope all works out fine completing the boards, looks like you have to put on all tru hole components first.
I'm still in for one of your lovely boards (Money burns in my wallet from the start of this project).

[wizard66]

Great work Yacube !

Looks like you beat the blizzard 1230@50 with this atempt.
Your speed:    18,65 times A600
Blizzard 1230:  16.69 times A600

Bring out the beer for this man ;-)

Can you please say something about the HDF read/write speeds you get :-)
Is there a gain in speed for hdf read/write ?

[wizard66]

Finally I have had some time to make tests with my new Replay expansion board. I was very curious how fast the 060 rev. 6 can run. It was able to run very stable from 3.3V with a very small heat sink and fan at over 100 MHz.

Nice going Yacube this is speed indeed ;-)
CPU/MMU/FPU all snorring like a cat.
I also have a 060 rev.6 waiting for your board :-)
Let the games begin boys and girls.
I'm installing OS3.1 and MWB on my FPGAArcade right now pics will follow..
I can't get my 68020 cache stabele I have version AYQ101127 and have to disable in the menu so i'm running on 6xa600 speed for the moment.
The faults i get when enableing the cache in the menu are reboots/ kickstart errors (red screens) freezes and screen dropouts.
Disableing the cache will give a rock stable Replay/Minimig core.