Coldfusion (ex AmigaColdfire) project poll

[Oli_hd]

LMAO, Is it a slow news day?
The question was just because I did an A4K design using SO-Dimms and it worked out I had a lot more space left... it wasnt that important a question. 8-)

Anyhow, just to say that I didnt post the news item.. it was just an interesting question to see if the people on the group woudl rather have a few expansion slots or a full sided DIMM on the A4K version.

[Oli_hd]

Hi,

Can we have some definition of what these "expansion slots" would be (miniPCI, or some custom thing?), what expansions would be planned for it, a little more info?

Sure, its not miniPCI or anything like that, its a custom interface. (at the moment its a small 72pin SO-DIMM socket connected directly to the CPU bus, 32bit data, 24bit address)

The slot wouldnt be for anything major like PCI or graphics, basically it was so the basic board would just have the Coldfire and SD-Ram (flash, bus logic, etc) and for USB, Ethernet and other basic upgrades to be added on, partly to make a cheap card, partly as a secondary expansion slot for things that do not require something the size of a Zorro card.

As for upgrades planned... well the chips I have been playing with up to now include USB, SCSI2, 10baseT Ethernet, IDE interface & maybe Firewire.

[Oli_hd]

Hi,

Any important update? My CD32 is waiting

I've been designing more than actually working on the prototype of late so not really, I have a nice A1200 design ready to be printed, I have done another A4000 design but thats it.
Im getting some more equipment to help me get this prototype working very soon because what I am using now is giving me a headache.