So the first log entry =)

So, just to summarize where I am at right now.

The processor section, keyboard controller, Compact Flash and the UART sections of the board have been built and tested. A few small minor bugs were found and corrected on the PCB, nothing major so far.  All  electrical parameters such as setup times, hold times etc have been verified so I know that the design is good.

I opted for PLD's for all the select logic so I am able to do pretty cool stuff with it. For instance, all IO is injected into ROM space at $FE00 and the IO page is 256 byte long.  Here I can assign chip selects to any address on a 16 byte boundary which makes the IO area almost invisible.,

I am currently running a version of the NoICE debugger fw on the board which makes it super easy to download new software and single step the program on my windows computer.

The first real snag that hit me was that the TMS9929 chips that I purchased were fake. Very easy to detect to. Just had to rub the devices with a little acetone and the paint came right off. very annoying. Got my money back and have purchased new chips from a supplier that was recommended to me. But it takes forever for them to arrive so in the mean time I am doing some software development instead.

The main reason for installing the compact flash card on the PCB was that I wanted to write a simple file system for 65C02, so this is what I am doing right now.