The test is looping on the #RAMpager.
Nothing fancy: it exercises the I/O by writing and reading the registers.
It also fills and reads the whole megabyte with various patterns.

It's still not robust enough as a test: it should fill the banks with different patterns and check that they do not overwrite each other. Next thing in line.

FTTH got fixed yestedarday: wasps made a nest in a very annoying place. Sorted now.

And I now have a few days off. Doesn't mean a lot of free time as there are loads of things to take care of in the farm, but still, more than usual.

I'll spend a few hours in the morning doing the following:
- Improvements to the #RAMpager PLD (forgot to explicitly put the data buffer in high impedence while reset is asserted)
- Start writing an exerciser tool for the expansion. Mainly to test the paging functionality
- Maybe watch a few videos. I have weeks to catch up.

Let's write a little thread about the fuckups I made with the #KIM1 #RAMpager.

First, the good news: the board is behaving decently now. I still need to do some heavy testing to hammer it, especially regarding the access to the registers that hold the current read/write pages but, for now, it seems they're fine accessed from the monitor.

Debugging the #KIM1 #RAMpager.
Enjoy the mess.

Prototypes for the #KIM1 #RAMpager board were delivered, and components too.

Hopefully this week I'll have some free time to start the build. And I'm sure this will end up requiring copious swearing, reprogramming and bodging to get up and running.

Guten Abend meine werten #Mastonauten.

Ich war Mal wieder in den örtlichen Gameläden unterwegs und bin mit zwei kleinen Schnappern zurückgekehrt 😊👍

Der #Rampager von #Borderlands3 als ca 40 cm großes #Räuchermännchen 🙂 wenn ich ihn anwerfe kann ich bei Bedarf gerne einen Clip hochladen 👍 (Der Rauch kommt aus seinem Schlot, er hat eine kleine Tasse unter dem "Hintern" 🤣)

Zudem kommt Deus Ex Human Revolution für die Ps3 👍

#gaming #game #schnapper #retrogames #figuren #sammeln