[A83] Re: Stupid Idea?

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Subject: [A83] Re: Stupid Idea?
From: Brandon Sterner <bms9019@rit.edu>
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 22:29:18 -0500
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Yeah I know some VHDL

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Thomas Lutz" <tlutz@stevens-tech.edu>
To: <assembly-83@lists.ticalc.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 10:06 PM
Subject: [A83] Re: Stupid Idea?


> The design I was thinking of would involve maybe 2 AAA batteries, an
> ASIC, and some other misc. circuit crap. Prototyping would be done with
> an XSA-100/XST-2 Board (www.xess.com), with a SpartanII FPGA. Since the
> calc only runs at 6 or (12?) MHz, timing constraints would not be a
> problem. If the project could be completed, I foresee the drive acting
> very similar to regular TI-Graph Link transfers. Naturally you wouldn't
> stick in a 512mb compact flash card...Probably a 4 or 8mb would be much
> more than sufficient. I think the FAT file system would be the best file
> system to implement, because you could then just drop files onto the
> disk using a USB drive for your PC.
> 
> Does anyone else know VHDL on this list?
> 
> -Tom
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: assembly-83-bounce@lists.ticalc.org
> [mailto:assembly-83-bounce@lists.ticalc.org] On Behalf Of Gavin Olson
> Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 9:12 PM
> To: assembly-83@lists.ticalc.org
> Subject: [A83] Re: Stupid Idea?
> 
> At 08:29 PM 12/11/2002 -0500, you wrote:
> >oh just a couple pounds of hardware... a BIG ass battery... still
> >portable... kinda... would be a cool project to work on at least
> >
> >brandon sterner
> 
> It would be like a link system to the better part of a Palm.  You need a
> 
> communication system from the calc to the device, then this IDE or
> PCMCIA 
> controller, and a fast system to do indexing and maintain a file 
> system.  The file system data, once developed by the fast system, would 
> have to be transmitted compressed across the link port.  You might look
> at 
> the PSX memory card interface that was developed by a guy at ticalc
> awhile 
> back.  It was mostly complete, and one guy actually built one into his 
> calc.  Supposed to be pretty sweet, its in the news archive.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>

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[A83] Re: Stupid Idea?

From: "Thomas Lutz" <tlutz@stevens-tech.edu>