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Bill Henning
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  		   Posted 6/24/2009 9:54 AM (GMT -8)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
And it was designed for Largos :-)

How's that for a teaser?

I am curious to see how much you guys can figure out about what it is from my postings in the last few months.... and how much of it you get right!

I should add that assembled and tested versions will also be available, and the design is 100% thru hole - no surface mount parts at all!

Photo's and more tomorrow.

------------------- UPDATE -----------------------

Hi guys,

It's great to finally spill the beans... it has been so tough to not say anything over the last few months!

I'll post more details tomorrow, but you guys deserve at least the basics :)

Morpheus (rev 1.0a)

- Dual Propeller based single board computer designed for Largos, targeting education (including gaming) and industrial control (including consultants, engineers and hobbyists)
- currently available as a bare PCB, kits (including sockets and all the parts) will be available next week, optional high quality stacking connectors

CPU #1:

- "designed for Largos" so that root fs is on SPI flash and SPI ram for edit buffer
- boot EEPROM
- Phillips PCF8563 Real Time Clock
- P0-P7 available for I/O expansion (optionally used by Mem+, see Mem+ features below), ProtoBoard compatible 10 pin header, all ucontroller.com modules should work out of the box on it
- P8-P15 two indepenend SPI memory sockets, P8-P11 used for 32KB SRAM or FRAM, P12-P15 for WinBond or compatible 4K page erasable FLASH, available up to 8MB (64Mb) in capacity, or optionally use for second ProtoBoard compatible header
- PS/2 Keyboard support (demo board compatible)
- PS/2 Mouse support (demo board compatible)
- stereo audio out
- DC input
- 3.3V and 5V voltage regulation on board
- dual filter capacitor support (standard .1uF ceramic, and tantalum/electrolytic capacitor support as per Saphiea's findings)
- 4 bit bus connecting to CPU #2
- controls RESET line of CPU #2
- can optionally drive XINPUT of CPU #2 from dedicated I/O pin instead of crystal (dial-a-cpu-frequency)
- PropPlug compatible programming header, adds optional fifth pin for 3.3V

CPU #2

- 4 bit bus to CPU #1 on P28-P31
- normally loaded by CPU #1, however has optional Prop plug compatible 5 pin programming header
- optional EEPROM for independent boot
- 512KB SRAM
- 24 bit address / 8 bit data FULL EXPANSION BUS ON 40 PIN HEADER
- VGA support, build time option for 64 color Parallax compatible mode or my extended 256 color mode
- working 1024x768 4 color driver, this week will have individual palette entries for each scan line
- "coming REAL SOON NOW (1-2 weeks)" 256x192 256 color per pixel gaming mode
- soon thereafter sprites will be added - LOTS OF THEM, 16x16, 256 color palette
- working burst read speed: 20MB/sec at 80MHz (requires 3 cogs)
- working burst write speed: 20MB/sec at 80MHz (requires 3 cogs)
- can switch "pages" in as little as three instructions (more below)
- setting address within a page takes one instruction
- easy to use 10MB/sec mode with random access within a 256 byte page

More on the memory design:

- 24 bit addressing, latched from P0-P15 when P26&27 are both low, P26 is ~RD, P27 is ~WR
- addresses $000000-$07FFFF reserved for memory mapped IO
- on-board 512K ram addressed from $200000-$27FFFF, but "mirrored" thru $37FFFF (I did not have space to implement finer decoding, but see Mem+ section)
- $400000-$5FFFFF nominally for first Mem+ board
- $600000-$7FFFFF nominally for second Mem+ board

HOWEVER, if you take the ram chip off Morpheus and put it on a mem+ you can actually put FOUR Mem+ boards onto your stack for 7.5MB of static ram

If there is enough interest (by this I mean pre-orders after I figure out the potential price) I am willing to produce a surface mounted 8MB sram board that will take the memory space to a potential 15.5MB of ram on a Morpheus board

Mem+ board:

- Four sockets for 512KB memory chips for 2MB per board
- Jumper for selecting board address range ($000000-$1FFFFF,$200000-$3FFFFF,$400000-$5FFFFF,$600000-$7FFFFF) with minor limitations discussed below
- raises PropPlug compatible programming pins for CPU #1 to Mem+ for easy access
- ONE of the Mem+ boards installed in a stack may implement one or more of the four following optional additional functions
--- MAX3232 based serial port, with optional RESET transistor which as a jumper to disable reset, selectable DTR/RTS for reset, DB9 PCB mount footprint
--- MCP23S17 SPI I/O expander, uses four available pins of CPU#1 brought out to 2x5 ten pin headers along with GND and 3.3V - some may use these for joysticks :)
--- SD card interface, uses other four available pins of CPU#1

School board: (wifey calls it "Icing on the cake")

- optional stacking headers for P0-7 and P8-15 on CPU 1
- position for stacking header for expansion bus (GND, +3.3V, +5V, ~RD, ~WR, A0-A23, D0-D7)
- solderless breadboard mounted on ProtoBoard format Morpheus specific stacking pattern

ALL BOARDS are 4.0"x3.05" with mounting holes matching Parallax standards
Morpheus is compatible with Ethernet, joystick, and other boards from ucontroller.com
[The PropGFX guys and some others had 256 color NTSC/PAL, but as far as I know I'm the first with VGA 256 colors on the market for the Prop - please correct me if I am wrong!]

www.mikronauts.com Please use mikronauts _at_ gmail _dot_ com to contact me off-forum, my PM is almost totally full
Morpheusdual Prop SBC w/ 512KB kit $119.95, Mem+2MB memory IO board kit $89.95, both kits $189.95
Propteus and Proteus for Propeller prototyping 6.250MHz custom Crystals run Propellers at 100MHz
Las - Large model assembler for the Propeller Largos - a feature full nano operating system for the Propeller

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  		   Posted 6/24/2009 9:58 AM (GMT -8)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
I know why you're here, Neo. I know what you've been doing... why you hardly sleep, why you live alone, and why night after night, you sit by your computer. You're looking for him. I know because I was once looking for the same thing. And when he found me, he told me I wasn't really looking for him. I was looking for an answer. It's the question that drives us, Neo. It's the question that brought you here. You know the question, just as I did.


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James Michael Huselton
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  		   Posted 6/24/2009 10:01 AM (GMT -8)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Who killed my cat?

JMH

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  		   Posted 6/24/2009 10:31 AM (GMT -8)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
@OBC - OMG! I just watched that last night again! I think he's trying to free our minds...

@James - Schroedinger did it! <points at someone else>

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James Michael Huselton
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  		   Posted 6/24/2009 10:46 AM (GMT -8)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Chris,

Tee Hee! ;-) I went to his grave and discovered Hugh Everett had dug him up and replanted the grass yeah

JMH

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  		   Posted 6/25/2009 2:48 AM (GMT -8)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
How many days left?
Are we there yet?
I never found Largos.
Was it posted?

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@humanado: It is in his signature! Look, there's a ling to both Las and Largos.

Toys are microcontroled.
Robots are microcontroled.
I am microcontroled.
 
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  		   Posted 6/25/2009 5:41 AM (GMT -8)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Nice tease :) I will have to watch the videos from the expo :(

My guess - a Prop operating system that has a compiler that runs under it roll

Links to other interesting threads:
My cruising website is:  www.bluemagic.biz   MultiBladeProp is: www.bluemagic.biz/cluso.htm

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James Michael Huselton
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  		   Posted 6/25/2009 8:33 AM (GMT -8)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Dr. Morpheus was the scientist who studied the Krell in Forbidden Planet (circa 1953?). Intelligence amplifier, you see.

JMH

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  		   Posted 6/25/2009 9:18 AM (GMT -8)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
No, Forbidden Planet was 1956 with Dr Morbius.

For me, the past is not over yet.

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I think it's some sort of binary to binary translator. Maybe Spin to LMM.
Maybe 8080 to LMM. Maybe something else.
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8080 to LMM, that would just be too weird !

For me, the past is not over yet.

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Morpheus, was one of the sons of the god of sleep. His part in the family francise was dreams.

Style and grace : Nil point

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He who values money over friends......has money
He who values friends over money......is rich

A saying I made up...needed it recently.

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  		   Posted 6/25/2009 10:50 AM (GMT -8)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Heater, I stand corrected.

JMH

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@Bill,

Perhaps a way to run SPIN programs under Largos control? That would be great.

Ross.

Catalina - a FREE C compiler for the Propeller - see Catalina

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My wistful thoughts still linger,
With such things I can not tinker.

But if I had to guess, I'd say you finally made the linker!!!!!!!!lol

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microcontrolled said...
@humanado: It is in his signature! Look, there's a ling to both Las and Largos.
I saw that before and followed the link but there was no download for largos. I think he's still working on it and its not quite ready. It does sound like a genius project!

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Hi all,

Largos is gestating, however I will show the shell at UPEW :-)

I expect it will be another 2-3 months before I can release anything, but it will be great...

Bill

humanoido said...
microcontrolled said...
@humanado: It is in his signature! Look, there's a ling to both Las and Largos.
I saw that before and followed the link but there was no download for largos. I think he's still working on it and its not quite ready. It does sound like a genius project!

humanoido

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  		   Posted 6/28/2009 12:41 AM (GMT -8)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Bill, I didn't get to see all of the webinar last night, so quick question, what is morpheum :)

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Bill will go into great detail I'm sure. He is an energetic and entertaining speaker :)

Seems to be a 2 Propeller solution with a 40 pin more or less traditional "bus" expandable from 512KB SRAM on one board to 2.5MB with a stackable expansion card (up to 16MB total?). He claims up to 20MB/s burst SRAM access. He also has some great graphics stuff. I bought a pair of PCB and look forward to bringing it up as time permits.

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Cool, I'll look forward to it :)

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Well, Tomorrow is today,

 What is Morpheus?

Chris

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has Bill been silenced by Agent Smith?

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More 4 us?

No, tomorrow never comes.....but Largos will. I'm looking forward to seeing the video.
 
 

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