Mastodawn

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.

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hkz

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.

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hkz 8h ago

Great. It seems that what I put into pages actually remains into the correct pages!

I NOW HAVE SO MANY BYTES

I think I'll soon be ready to put all the fixes into a rev.1 and order a new prototype!