10-09-2017, 05:38 PM
Hi Cardigan
Thanks for your kind comments.
It has been a long and enjoyable road getting this far and there is a quite bit to go yet. When I started I would have been very happy to have ended up with any sort of a working converter, even a straight forward line dropper.
It is only with the very generous help that I have received on this forum that it has turned into what it is. Jeffrey's encouragement to use a FPGA was truly a turning point.
Hi Trevor
I don't intend selling any, but I will make the programing and PCB files available free if anyone would like to build one.
If/when I get finished I will have some PCB's left over and I also have some extra FPGA boards so I could possibly offer a PCB and pre-programed FPGA board if anyone was interested but it is really too early to talk about that yet. I will provisionally put your name on a PCB and FPGA board.
The FPGA boards come from China and take quite a while to arrive from there so I keep a couple spare in case I let the magic smoke out of one. Generally I find the chances of the magic smoke escaping in inversely proportional to the amount of spare ones to hand.
Currently I am working on a test card generator for it. This is a part that I have been itching to do, as I think It interesting to compare implementing one on a FPGA compared to PIC. It will be similar to the PM5544 style one I did in a earlier project. So far predictably the FPGA is winning hands down.
Frank
Thanks for your kind comments.
It has been a long and enjoyable road getting this far and there is a quite bit to go yet. When I started I would have been very happy to have ended up with any sort of a working converter, even a straight forward line dropper.
It is only with the very generous help that I have received on this forum that it has turned into what it is. Jeffrey's encouragement to use a FPGA was truly a turning point.
Hi Trevor
I don't intend selling any, but I will make the programing and PCB files available free if anyone would like to build one.
If/when I get finished I will have some PCB's left over and I also have some extra FPGA boards so I could possibly offer a PCB and pre-programed FPGA board if anyone was interested but it is really too early to talk about that yet. I will provisionally put your name on a PCB and FPGA board.
The FPGA boards come from China and take quite a while to arrive from there so I keep a couple spare in case I let the magic smoke out of one. Generally I find the chances of the magic smoke escaping in inversely proportional to the amount of spare ones to hand.
Currently I am working on a test card generator for it. This is a part that I have been itching to do, as I think It interesting to compare implementing one on a FPGA compared to PIC. It will be similar to the PM5544 style one I did in a earlier project. So far predictably the FPGA is winning hands down.
Frank
