Ok, not quite the last post in the old website ... I've just got back from another fantastic Glastonbury Festival, so it's a bit of an effort to do, well, anything this week :)
I built one of the atx\_pwr controller boards and it works nicely. Now my board is in it's ITX case, so I can move it around a...
Oh, I nearly forgot - here is an overview of the base board and it's connectors...
Prototype board production is continuing. All beta test boards are assembled and these have been shipping out over the past week or two. I've been in China and should get the production tweaked version as well as the atx-power control PCB manufactured shortly. The atx-power board connects the power supply in a mini-itx box to the Replay board, and has...
Here is a picture of the board in a mini-itx box. It's the smallest case I could find and the Replay board takes up about 1/3rd. I need to make a small adapter board for the ATX PSU then the board can be powered by the rear 4 pin molex.
The hardware is fully tested now and I'm starting to send...
When we have a working initial firmware I will start shipping the rest of the boards.
Please don't email me yet!...
The replacement regulators work well and solve the power off problem. I've been testing the luma trap response with burst test patterns generated in the FPGA. The hardware is working well, but I am starting to think the trap may not be worth it for retro-computing. It softens the edges of the characters a little, but does reduce the colour...
A quick update, I apologize for the delay. I've been really busy testing the boards.
No real problems as yet. I'm waiting for a different LDO as the one I am using does not shut down when the input power is turned off, and the resulting reverse leakage keeps the board partially powered. I have modified one board with a different...
A few more pictures now I've assembled the through hole components.
You can see one board does not have the components on the backside, this is the version without the composite/SVHS output. The board you can see from the top has the codec and the extra output connector. Note, I've stuck four rubber feet on the bottom over the mounting holes...
