I misunderstood your picture. I thought you were doing the big board. I did not see the smaller board that is wired in. CPLD probably would not do much good as you say.
--- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, Surf Thenet <surf@...> wrote:
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> This is such a small PCB, one chip, one trans, 2 resistors... I just don't
> have a lot of hope for simplification. Concerns regarding testing and
> verification seal this, but THANK YOU! for the suggestions :)
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> Saltbreez
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> On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 7:34 PM, javaguy11111 <javaguy11111@...>wrote:
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> > --- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, Surf Thenet <surf@> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hey guys,
> > >
> > > Anyone play Stargate at the arcades growing up? The original Stargate
> > > arcade boards came with a daughter PCB, a scab used by Williams
> > > Electronics to fix a design problem late in production.
> > >
> > >
> > > This shows the daughter board mounted on the main PCB:
> > > http://www.robotron-2084.co.uk/jpegs/R8948.jpg
> > >
> > > So I need one of these daughter boards; they are of course no longer
> > > in production.
> > >
> > > How much of a stretch of the imagination is it to create one of these
> > > one sided PCB's from a picture of a real one?
> >
> > Assuming you have full schematics and everything is simple logic(ie no
> > analog) , I wonder if a CPLD might work better. You may be able fit all the
> > logic from that board into one chip. You might want to take a look a Xilinx.
> > Their fpga/cpld development kit is free and you can get cpld boards from
> > digilentinc.com The development software also has a schematic input mode,
> > so you do not have to learn verilog or VHDL to do the programming.
> >
> > Not meaning to discourage you from building a board, but you may be able to
> > take advantage of todays technology to make your job a little easier.
> >
> >
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