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Re: [Xylo-SDR] Eurocard Cyclone II PCB



You can't plug a Eurocard backwards when using a card rack, the male and female will not line up. The connector is not symmetrically centered on the board, it's on the component side only, if you flip the card the connectors miss each other.

At 06:57 PM 1/8/2006, you wrote:
always ran +bus on one side the common down the middle and the -bus one pin
in for swapping the board at the wrong end for end to keep from burning out
something maybe this will help with the power busses.
tom w0kgw

----- Original Message -----
From: "KD5NWA" <kd5nwa@cox.net>
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Sent: Sunday, January 08, 2006 11:48 AM
Subject: Re: [Xylo-SDR] Eurocard Cyclone II PCB


>I would recommend the power traces be on the outside edges of the
> connector specially the ground so on boards that are two layers the
> traces can be much wider than three pins.
>
> At 08:32 AM 1/8/2006, you wrote:
>>Leon
>>
>>Great! You might want to poll the group of how many and which pins to make
>>intra board and how many and which to make I/O from the FPGA. I guess the
>>power traces should be doubled along the edge. I'll leave that up to you
>>guys.
>>
>>Eric
>>
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: xylo-sdr-bounces@lists.ae5k.us
>>[mailto:xylo-sdr-bounces@lists.ae5k.us]
>>On Behalf Of Leon Heller
>>Sent: Sunday, January 08, 2006 2:03 AM
>>To: Xylo-SDR Discussion
>>Subject: [Xylo-SDR] Eurocard Cyclone II PCB
>>
>>I'll do it!
>>
>>I'll order some of the 96-way connectors and a couple of FX2 chips
>>tomorrow,
>>
>>so I can check the footprints. I've already got the Cyclone II chips, but
>>I
>>need to get some of the configuration chips, as well.
>>
>>I've got the 96-way straight and right-angle connectors in the Pulsonix
>>library.
>>
>>I'll use a four-layer board. There is no point in cutting corners and
>>it'll
>>be much easier to design, as well as cutting down on emissions. As most of
>>the connections will be to the DIN connector, I'll save a lot of time by
>>using the autorouter on them. I might as well put a 24.576 Mhz oscillator
>>on
>>
>>the board, feeding one of the FPGA clock inputs and brought out to the
>>connector, to save having one on the ADC board, as well as a 50 MHz
>>oscillator. I've had my Flex board running at 125 MHz, so we could got a
>>lot
>>
>>faster.
>>
>>73, Leon
>>--
>>Leon Heller, G1HSM
>>leon.heller@bulldoghome.com
>>http://www.geocities.com/leon_heller
>>
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