Wednesday, June 10, 2020

Analogue Board


Well the Digital board is working fairly well... well enough for me to bother starting on the Analogue board anyway. Problems with the Digital board are the usual Z80 issues with stable clocks and making sure that we have a long reset pulse. The new CMOS Z80 doesn't seem very interested in running but the old NMOS one is OK. There is a resistor missing from the UART/opto isolator circuit but with the addition of the resistor it all seems OK and the NMI works and the CPU collects the data. I have Ruby script to feed in the SYSEX settings but really need the Battery backup in place first. The Analogue board has had a couple of small tweeks like a switch mode regulator instead of the rather brutal original linear one and a negative 5V generator so a simple DC wall wart will suffice through a standard barrel connector. I was thinking that the filter design could be redone for a Shruthi filter board... maybe one day...