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Re: FPGA Replay Board
« Reply #134 on: February 17, 2011, 11:45:30 PM »
@ALL: Thanks for all the discussions on the topics i raised. Nice to see so many others are eager to see the Replay board "on the shelves" sometime very soon :)

Personally, I will go for the Replay board as I believe it is the coolest of them all. I will of course add the daughterboard and I do hope thet  RTG will be supported in the future so I can use the Replay board also as my "dekstop amiga" :-)

Thumbs up for MikeJ and Yaqube and also to the original minimig-author who started this whole crazyness ;)
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Re: FPGA Replay Board
« Reply #135 on: February 20, 2011, 12:13:26 PM »
-Production difference ? (Handmade / Machine made)
Fpgaarcade has the PCB factory made and the FPGA machine soldered. The rest of the components are hand soldered.

This was the case for the RevA boards, but RevB boards are double sided and machine made. The manufacturing is completely set up and the boards can be knocked out in high volume.

The code and schematics are/will be open source, the PCB layout is not.

The Replay board also has a daughter board connector to add USB/Ethernet/CPU and more memory.
/Mike
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Re: FPGA Replay Board
« Reply #136 on: February 20, 2011, 04:26:05 PM »
Could you release the PCB layout in 5 years for free?

Such that if anyone whishes to have a board done could do so at a time when getting in contact with the original maker might be hard.
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Re: FPGA Replay Board
« Reply #137 on: February 20, 2011, 05:20:06 PM »
I like the idea of the daughterboard.

Hope everything is going well with the board bring-up and the Amiga core!
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Re: FPGA Replay Board
« Reply #138 on: February 21, 2011, 06:41:54 AM »
"Could you release the PCB layout in 5 years for free?"

If I evey stop making the board then I will publish the gerber files for production. However it is a 6 layer card and it costs a lot in NRE to produce the boards, so I don't see them being any use.
You also need to produce paste masks to assemble the board, which are very expensive.

In 5 years I hope we will be making Replay3 boards based on Spartan8 or something..
/MikeJ
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Re: FPGA Replay Board
« Reply #139 on: February 21, 2011, 09:12:46 AM »
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In 5 years I hope we will be making Replay3 boards based on Spartan8 or something..
/MikeJ


That's the spirit ;)
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Re: FPGA Replay Board
« Reply #140 on: February 21, 2011, 10:41:55 AM »
Quote from: mikej;616876

In 5 years I hope we will be making Replay3 boards based on Spartan8 or something..
/MikeJ


Sounds good to me!
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Re: FPGA Replay Board
« Reply #141 on: February 21, 2011, 12:58:30 PM »
I figured the board is a bit complicated regarding manufacturing. But it's good to have a last resort should all things go murphy ;)

Btw, how does it work in regards to the FPGA. Does the Chinese factory order those from Xilinx. Or you send it to them?, in case you send them, how do you make sure they aren't simply "lost" by the factory ? ;)
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Re: FPGA Replay Board
« Reply #142 on: February 27, 2011, 02:40:10 PM »
Bump....

Anyone have something to post ? Any news on progress ?

How abour the daughterboard. We're dying to hear how it goes :)
Maybe some specs ?

Espen
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Re: FPGA Replay Board
« Reply #143 on: February 27, 2011, 03:18:44 PM »
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Bump....

Anyone have something to post ? Any news on progress ?

How abour the daughterboard. We're dying to hear how it goes :)
Maybe some specs ?

Espen


The first 500 boards were shipped to customers last week.  Haven't you got your yet?
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Re: FPGA Replay Board
« Reply #144 on: February 27, 2011, 05:18:09 PM »
I'm still in China but I have got almost enough parts now to build another 50 boards. Jakub has his up and running. I'll post some vids when I get home early this week.
/Mike
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Re: FPGA Replay Board
« Reply #145 on: February 27, 2011, 05:38:24 PM »
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I'm still in China but I have got almost enough parts now to build another 50 boards. Jakub has his up and running. I'll post some vids when I get home early this week.
/Mike


and just in case anyone took my last post seriously, I should point out that I was kidding.  :D
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Re: FPGA Replay Board
« Reply #146 on: February 27, 2011, 06:01:47 PM »
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I'm still in China but I have got almost enough parts now to build another 50 boards. Jakub has his up and running. I'll post some vids when I get home early this week.
/Mike


Awesome, great news.
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Re: FPGA Replay Board
« Reply #147 on: February 27, 2011, 09:28:28 PM »
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-Production difference ? (Handmade / Machine made)
Fpgaarcade has the PCB factory made and the FPGA machine soldered. The rest of the components are hand soldered.

This was the case for the RevA boards, but RevB boards are double sided and machine made. The manufacturing is completely set up and the boards can be knocked out in high volume.

The code and schematics are/will be open source, the PCB layout is not.

The Replay board also has a daughter board connector to add USB/Ethernet/CPU and more memory.
/Mike

Are there any pictures of the FPGA Arcade with the daughter card 060 CPU installed?  Does the daughter card sit on top of it in a perpendicular direction, or is it flat to keep the form factor as small as possible?
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Re: FPGA Replay Board
« Reply #148 on: March 07, 2011, 06:50:00 AM »
The daughter board is flat. There is a picture of my CPU sitting on the prototype patch card if you scroll down far enough on the website. Jakub has a similar board with ethernet/usb on it which I am working to adapt for the RevB board now.
Best,
Mike
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Re: FPGA Replay Board
« Reply #149 from previous page: March 07, 2011, 11:14:12 AM »
Looking forward to it. (BTW: I've got a tray of MC68060RC50 E41J's somewhere if you need one or two)
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