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J68 can now speak with BEMICRO MAX 10 onboard SDRAM

So for the longest time, I’ve wanted to use the onboard 8MB SDRAM that is present on the BEMICRO MAX 10 fpga eval board. This is now a reality!

I’ve successfully integrated a controller with some glue logic to connect to the J68.

I’ve mapped the $20000-$81FFFE to the SDRAM. All calls to ROM (stored on-FPGA FLASH) are retrieved properly, some low level RAM calls access the on-FPGA M9K memory blocks, and the UARTs are all handled fairly seemlessly.

Here’s the very simple 68K memory check routine. Obviously this can be expanded on, but it’s passing!!

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Cirrus Logic CS4335 DAC problems finally identified and fixed.

I had some assistance in fixing this problem. My always helpful friend Brian from Canada as well as some help from Steve @ the Audacity forums contributed to solving the problem. They filled in some blanks for me, and encouraged me to LOOK at the data to see the problem.

This is the “Quit thinking and look” solution found in this book called “Debugging Rules”. Absolutely love this book!! Amazon link.

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left-justified DAC problems continue

Here you see the analog sound waveform coming out of the DAC at the top in yellow.

I think I’m getting closer……I switched from the I2S DAC to a left-justified DAC just because the LJ one is a little simpler to design around….the MSB for the DATA is lined up with the LRCLK transition……

The digital channels below are the input to the DAC:

D3 is the serial data

D2 is SCLK

D1 is LRCLK

D0 is the MCLK

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Trying to debug my design for an Audio DAC Cirrus Logic CS4334

I purchased a CS4334 to eventually use as an Audio DAC for the badge computer. I’ve never worked with DACs before, and my knowledge of audio is somewhat limited.

This audio DAC is a Cirrus Logic CS4334 with datasheet available here.

This chip is the I2S variant, specifically not the LEFT justified or RIGHT justified one. Each variant has slightly different timing requirements. The I2S specification is located here.

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J68 is now booting from User Flash Memory on the BEMICRO MAX10 FPGA board

I’ve been struggling for quite a few nights and weekends over the last month or so.

I’ve now successfully attached the J68 to the built-in User Flash Memory. This means that the 16KB (actually about ~13KB) of the ROM monitor VUBUG is now out of the pre-initialized m9k’s configured as a ROM, and now into FLASH. Which is non-volatile, and will survive a reboot. The most important part of this is that it frees up our valuable high-speed on-chip m9k’s.

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