Hi
These usually are not very complicated. I have
one of these from AMD. You might hunt around by
using the search engine on the Intel site. I found
quite a bit of information for mine by doing that
with the AMD site. Mine has some flash and RAM with
a few I/O's.
I've put a simple Forth on mine that was adapted
from fpc ( A Forth for the PC ). The only tricky
thing about these is the resetting of the special
registers. These you can understand by looking at
the data books for the C186/C188 version you have.
These registers are slightly differnt for each letter
version so make sure you are looking at the same
one.
The AMD had a special monitor on board to
upgrade the flash. I'd suspect that the Intel
board might be the same. If you should fiddle with
the flash, make sure and save a copy.
I found some information on an upgrade for the monitor
but it required having the previous monitor loaded.
Mine was an even earlier version. I did some fiddle faddle
by loading the monitor at another location, as
an application program and then using that to upgrade
to the current version. It was tricky
but it did work :) It now still has the monitor
and the Forth as one of the applications.
Dwight
From: "jim stephens" <jwstephens at
msm.umr.edu>
Joe R. wrote:
Speaking of SBCs. Does anyone know anything about
an Intel 80C186/80C188
Evaluation Board? It's NOT Multibus.
Joe
At 02:25 PM 10/10/05 -0500, you wrote:
>A while back
>
intel still produces sample boards for all processors to send out. If
you get one of
the older eval boards, it probably has some support for expansion, but
more importantly,
it would have connections (or should have) to bring out run control and
processor bus to
be hooked to trace devices. This can require an interposer for a lot of
systems, and
is nice if you want to play with a processor and see what it does w/o
having to do such
a thing.
A lot of these used to be on the intel site, but are no longer there.
jim