17 Feb
2017
17 Feb
'17
7:07 p.m.
On 2/17/2017 10:01 AM, Philipp Hachtmann wrote:
I knew you had used an CPLD in the first version, but I had no idea what
you intended to do for the next one. That was why I wrote CPLD/FPGA.
That was why I specifically wrote *shield*. There are a lot of SPI
interface boards out there, and if there were a little room in the chip
to handle an Omnibus/SPI interface, a lot could conceivably be done with
it. Examples: SD Cards, Ethernet and so on.
I understand, and have no problem with that as a philosophy.
The why was that, before today, I had not realized that there might be
tools to convert from Eagle to KiCAD, which made Eagle files of no use
to me.
As others have since pointed out, KiCAD has nothing whatsoever to do
with Arduino. Others have addressed its strengths and weaknesses. In
my case, the comment stemmed from perhaps wanting to take you hardware
design, and adapt it for other purposes, without having to start from
scratch.
On 02/17/2017 01:02 AM, Jay Jaeger wrote:
The thanks was for your effort. The hope that it works out was to say
that I hope that you decide to make some more and sell them, which seems
uncertain at this point.
First of all THANKS. I hope this works out.
?!?
An area with place to mount, say, a 40 pin header
(2x20) or the like, on
one edge of the board, with a set of places where one could jumper those
pins to a set of I/O pins of the CPLD/FPGA would be really cool.
As far as I just
remember, there are no substantial IO pins left.
And there is no FPGA. A spot where one could mount an Arduino
compatible shield - again with
no actual connections, but a place where one could jumper them to some
I/O pins on the CPLD/FPGA might be really cool. (e.g., using the CPLD
to run an SPI bus connection to a shield).
No support for Arduino. Unter no
circumstanced. I really don't like
Arduino except for:
- I can get extremely cheap AVR boards ("nano") for arbitrary use.
In short, ways
that folks could take your basic board and make it
possible to do other things with it could increase the value of the
board enormously.
Probably. But I want to create/use/provide a simple tool that
does
exactly one thing perfectly. You might consider KiCAD as an alternative to
Eagle. It works pretty
darned well.
Why should I? If you look at the board's size you probably see
that it
cannot be made using the free version. I own a paid Eagle 7 license. Why
should I throw that away? Started to use Eagle as a child. Have my own
libraries and footprints. Got used to the odds. And I won't use that
KiCAD thing. It smells too much like dumb Arduino folks. And I do not
want to share to much with that community.
Kind regards
Philipp
Thanks again.