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A project log for z80 Experimentation Kit

A project to produce a kit for experimenting with z80 CPUs - More an embedded board than a PC

michael-cullenMichael Cullen 09/24/2018 at 03:010 Comments

I've spent most of this weekend laying out a new board design. It implements some of the improvements I mentioned before:

The biggest comment I have is... What with the port expanders, USB, and discrete logic IO. there are a lot of traces. As in, enough ttraces that I doubt I could fit any more on the board. There are a few things this design does not have that I said I'd add:

I think it's enough for now though, to progress the project.

Here's a preview:

Progress on the host library I talked about is... slow. It's quite tedious to write so I've been tending to play with the hardware more. Ah well, I'm sure I'll get to it.

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