Emu XL-7 & MP-7 User's Group

On Mon, 4 Jan 2010, Jack Pratt wrote:

> I have plans to make some SIMMs but I was thinking that they would be 
> DRAM based so that the contents were loaded at power on. The general 
> idea was that you have a micro SD card slot, an FPGA and some DRAM and 
> while the proteus module (or audity - the FPGA could provide signals for 
> either) is booting the contents of the SD card are copied into DRAM.
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this is sounding awesome...

how do the samples get onto the SD card? if that can be done without an 
ultra, count me in!!! even if it does require an ultra, i may still be 
interested.

i've never programmed a flash ROM for these things, so i'm not sure what 
data they hold in addition to "just" the sample. i'd be happy enough with 
"just" 128M of samples in a command station or proteus (type) box.

if you can work out a platform neutral (java?) application for making SD 
images, i'd drop some $$$ on the cards!


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