ZorRam - new memory board for Zorro 3

[HammerD]

I haven't seen any news of this here, so check this out:

http://www.a1k.org/forum/showthread.php?t=21012

Quoted (and translated from German) from A1K.org by Michael Boehmer:

"This card provides a common OEM development of individual computers and on behalf of, E3B amigakit.com (Mathew Leaman) dar. The Zorro III E3B know-how comes from, as the circuit board layout and the extremely slim-SDRAM controller, the know-how comes from individual computers on SDRAM and the manufacturing experience for a high-quality production of the cards at the same time an attractive retail price.

The card (project name "ZorRAM") will be available exclusively at amigakit.

The technical data in brief:

- compact Zorro III card (130x55 mm ^ 2)
- Four-layer PCB
- 128MB or 256MB of fast SDRAM (soldered)
- real 32bit design
- Full support for Autoconfig
- RAM is automatically integrated into the system
- RAM can be "manually" integrated addme /
- low power design
- slender, but faster FPGA for interfacing to Zorro III
- no Zorro II support (makes no sense at 8MB address space) "

[Matt_H]

Nice! Been wondering when a product like this would appear

[mboehmer_e3b]

- slender, but faster FPGA for interfacing to Zorro III

CPLD, not FPGA.

For SDRAM using an FPGA is nice, but overkill.

You can do a SDRAM controller with fully featured Zorro III interface and level shifters in 144 macrocells :-)

Michael

[Amigaz]

Cool! Hope this get's released and doesn't end up in vapour-land

[amigakit]

Please wait for the official AmigaKit.com announcement on this new product.

[mboehmer_e3b]

Cool! Hope this get's released and doesn't end up in vapour-land

How many announced E3B products ended up there?

Anyhow, it must be released - vapourland has been populized by many other companies, so there's no space left :-) And even if there was... the ZorRAM would be too scared to go there, thinking of all the Sharks and Dragons crouching around...

Michael

[Amigaz]

How many announced E3B products ended up there?

Anyhow, it must be released - vapourland has been populized by many other companies, so there's no space left :-) And even if there was... the ZorRAM would be too scared to go there, thinking of all the Sharks and Dragons crouching around...

Michael

None.

You have my confidence

[trekiej]

Great to hear that there are more products for the Amiga.

[Zac67]

Wowee!

Thought there'd be a way to do a reasonable SDRAM board...

I'm not holding my breath but this definitely is something to look forward to. Very interested to find out the specs: price, speed compared to onboard RAM, availability.

[Jiffy]

This looks very nice indeed and a nice addition to my A3000. Could even be reasonably priced, I guess.

[Tajmaster]

Any ideas on a price??

[wawrzon]

@tajmaster:
http://www.a1k.org/forum/showthread.php?t=21012
post number 18

[AltRN8]

I have wanted one of these for awhile. The extra memory is incredibly useful can't wait to find out the price.

[redrumloa]

Cool for ramdisk use.

[arnljot]

I want to be able to use netsurf without worring (too much) about RAM

But a ram disk is cool too!:)