Probably illegal but would it be possible to clone the thing and have it produced in one of those cheap chinese factories ?
I've read some post in a thread here that P5 protected the PLC's or something, but there must be a way around it:)
Note, I personally don't belive cheap chinese salaries is the way to go but unfortunately it's the way the world is going right now..
Just though I'd post something controversial, been long since I used to post more around here...
Cheers :pint:
Are all the components still available? Or will you be digging around in clearance bins of used or shady Chinese counterfeit part sellers to get them?
It might be cheaper to design a new board than to reverse-engineer this old one.
Here's my idea: accelerator board that really only has connectors and an FPGA. Then plug in an existing (ie known good) PowerPC module in some industry standard format (ie. Com-Express) on top of that. Thus the FPGA accelerator board can be a relatively minimal design to connect PCI to the 68K CPU slot, provide a couple other connectors available on your module standard, and the hard stuff like memory bus is already done by someone else. And there's some modules with the newest buyable QorIQ chips on them.
