Re: Using a Arduino Mage2560 as IEEE disk

From: Christian Dirks <Toast_r_at_IdeaLine.info>
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2020 15:39:04 +0100
Message-ID: <6020bb88-6b6d-3c95-950a-608b793279bb_at_IdeaLine.info>
Do you already know the petSD?
http://petsd.net/
Maybe it's unnecessary to re-invent the wheel.

Christian

Am 10.01.2020 um 14:52 schrieb Hans Liss:
> On 2020-01-10 13:54, Baltissen, GJPAA (Ruud) wrote:
>>> Do you know if someone has designed a shield for it already?
>> No idea at all. In fact I had no idea what you meant with “shield”.
>> Now I know that a shield is a daughterboard that fits on the original
>> Arduinoe (or Pi).
> 
> Yes, it makes it far more tidy than building it on a separate breadboard
> or similar. I've just designed a shield for the mega for testing CDP1802
> processors and it turned out very nice.
> 
>>> I'm thinking it should include ...
>> Not knowing how the schematic looked like, I had to download and
>> install Kicad first. I created a PNG of the schematic and if
>> interested, ask me.
> 
> Oh, nice! I only read about the pin assignments in the source code, and
> that sounded easy enough. I can design and test the shield; I just need
> to know what to include beyond the basics.
> 
>> First I haven't any knowledge of the Mega2560 at all so I have no idea
>> how the various pins behave: totem pole, OC or something else? What
>> they can drive? Can at least one be used as interrupt input? So that
>> are things I have to learn first. And that will cost time which I
>> don't have very much ☹
> If it will help to add drivers or something like that, that can
> certainly be done. I don't know anything at all about the IEEE bus.
>> I would certainly include an ATN trap. And why not adding an IEC bus?
>> If possible parallel to the IEEE one. A small LCD screen + some buttons?
> 
> A lot of that will depend on what the software can (be made to) do as
> well, of course. But since it's a Mega 2560 there are certainly lots of
> pins to play with. I'll look for a hardware interrupt pin - that's
> something I haven't played with on Arduinos before.
> 
> As for the IEC bus, I'm not sure how to implement that in parallell to
> the IEEE bus. Can that be done with external logic or will the Arduino
> have to implement both? TBH, for now I think I would leave the IEC out
> of it and just get the basic parallel working the way the author intended.
> 
> 
> /Hans
> 
> 


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