EclaireXL

To one point I don't remember till which firmware version, these work well. Maybe Mark later confuse something in Core?

Yeah I mixed them up.

We swapped joystick ports 0/1 and 2/3 on the silkscreen. I made the same changes in the core... except its different for paddles since we'd only really swapped port 0 and 1!

I'm building with the order corrected, then I

I noticed a 2nd bug, on my 600XL the minimum value of ? paddle(x) is 1. On Eclaire I get minimum of 0...

", then I will check the touch tablet"

I checked the touch tablet, confirmed not working on the new board. Very odd since this worked on v1 and paddles are working, except the bad mapping! Will investigate...

foft wrote:

I checked the touch tablet, confirmed not working on the new board. Very odd since this worked on v1 and paddles are working, except the bad mapping! Will investigate...

If I remember well these work on core 7 or 8??..

The odd thing is I get 3.8V instead of 3.3V. I don't understand that at all, investigating... This would push the threshold on the LM339 too high for the paddle, but why is it 3.8V?!

Going to check this on my scope, I don't trust my multimeter...

Still this this should be checked, but think its a red herring. I get the same reading on my scope - and on the v1 and prototype. I don't remember these being so far off but guess they have always been. Panos, what did you get when you measured them?

OK, I found that if I connect the Eclaire to my laptop for power, it works. If I connect it to a PSU, it doesn't! The voltage is slightly higher and pushes the threshold too high.

So: weak PSU, touch tablet works. string PSU, touch tablet fails!!

I identified we used (since my early prototype) the wrong capacitor and inductor values on the voltage converters. I'd like to try changing these for the correct ones to see if it helps get more accurate voltages.

foft wrote:

Still this this should be checked, but think its a red herring. I get the same reading on my scope - and on the v1 and prototype. I don't remember these being so far off but guess they have always been. Panos, what did you get when you measured them?

I never read more than 3v3 using any type of power source.

Maybe my tools are just not calibrated properly. Well anyway the touch tablet does not seem to work with a decent PSU due to small voltage adjustments on the LM339 level. So I think we need to adjust the resistors on that slightly. I think we have 2.2K and 1.1K now. Perhaps 2.0K and 1.1K would be better to give a little breathing room.

foft wrote:

Maybe my tools are just not calibrated properly.

I don't have touch tablet in my possession, but I try two different psu's with 5 and 5.2 volt output, and at any case I read 3.333v with my voltmeter. Check it on v1 board.
If you could check our mails in the past, I never had over voltage but only under voltage when I use independent regulators for dac and adc.

foft wrote:

Maybe my tools are just not calibrated properly.

I don't have touch tablet in my possession, but I try two different psu's with 5 and 5.2 volt output, and at any case I read 3.333v with my voltmeter. Check it on v1 board.
If you could check our mails in the past, I never had a case with over voltage, but only under voltage when I use independent regulators for dac and adc.

foft wrote:

Maybe my tools are just not calibrated properly.

I don't have touch tablet in my possession, but I try two different psu's with 5 and 5.2 volt output, and at any case I read 3.333v with my voltmeter. I check it on v1 board with only the SD CARD placed there.
If you could check our mails in the past, I never had a case with over voltage, but only under voltage when I use independent regulators for dac and adc.

foft wrote:

Maybe my tools are just not calibrated properly.

I don't have touch tablet in my possession, but I try two different psu's with 5 and 5.2 volt output, and at any case I read 3.333v with my voltmeter. I check it on v1 board with only the SD CARD to be placed there.
If you could check our mails in the past, I never had a case with over voltage, but only under voltage when I use independent regulators for dac and adc.

I use these two power adapters below..

[[https://m-service.prom.ua/p47863721-zaryadnoe-ustrojstvo-white.html]]

[[http://www.awax3.pl/product-pol-4023-Ladowarka-Samsung-EP-TA10EWE.html]]

Even a worthless psu rated at 5v @ 500mA who in reality supply with 5.26v, after the regulator read 3.333v

Ok, so assuming my scope is wrong for now. Its a usb one, I don't trust the absolute levels that much. What are you using to measure Panos?

One thing fed almost direct is 5V from psu to touch tablet. It might be sensitive. I can check the signal I receive with both my power supplies tonight.i.e. is it working in both cases and the eclair does not detect it, or does it only work with one psu

Hi Mark.
I use my 4 digits digital multimeter to take readings. My analogue scope TEK2445, isn't usefull at all for accurate voltage readings, although it have on screen readout. As for the digital scopes, I don't know how accurate are.

OK, I restarted my scope software and now get the correct readings. So a bit of a mystery but I suspect a plain old bug...

Anyway now I get 3.3V,2.5V and 1.1V as expected. However the 5V line is anything but 5V. I checked 4 different PSUs and get different levels on all of them. This '5V' input is directly fed to the touch tablet. I found that the touch tablet 'high' level varies from 2.0V (when fed 4.5V from a USB power supply) to 2.25V (when fed 4.75V - from my laptop). The level we check for is 2.2V.

We can clearly fix this but changing our 'high' level from 2.2V to say 1.95V. However I think the root cause is the input from the USB PSU. Why are these not giving 5V as advertised. I guess we have to have the correct supporting circuitry in place for that to work. Will investigate.

"The ATX power supply specification states the 5VUSB rail can be between +4.75V and +5.25V."

I guess we need a regulator to actually get 5V! I also read that many ports output only 500mA until sending them a message.

I wonder if there are chips that do both...

"It is specified that devices' configuration and low-power functions must operate down to 4.40 V at the hub port by USB 2.0 and that devices' configuration, low-power, and high-power functions must operate down to 4.00 V at the device port by USB 3.0."

Mark, I think is time to send you a digital multi-meter as a gift! ;-)

I have a question. You read the 5v directly at the input, or at the end after the joystick port?

I mean tps63002.

I have a multimeter. It still reads 3.8V today after the regulator - and 5V on the input. I trust the scope more - when the software is working:-)

Same reading in the 1st board also?

What the other guys said about it? None have a multi meter to check the voltage?

Can you find this in Switzerland? Is 5.2 volt at 2 Amper! My meter read 5.16 volt on board! Same thing is also the code

EP-TA10EWE
EP-TA12EWE
EP-TA20EWE

[[https://www.pc-ostschweiz.ch/product-2a18418736.htm?parnr=12833201]]

i have a meter, just need clear instruction what to do and where to check

Nir

I have power supplies who state 5V, but if I measure them they are not.

You can measure on the joystick ports - or between the power switch and gnd.

ndary wrote:

i have a meter, just need clear instruction what to do and where to check

Nir

Prepare your meter for DC Volts in a range of 10 or 20 volt. After power up your eclaireXL without any peripheral device connected, and place the black negative probe on the "TEST POINTS" area of your pcb marked as "GND".
Now place the other one red positive probe at the outer longer pin of the power switch, and tel us what you reading.

Be very careful to not damage your pcb!!!! Do very slow and steady movements with your hands there!!!

foft wrote:

I have power supplies who state 5V, but if I measure them they are not.

I know Mark, and this is the reason who I ask you to buy a tested psu from Samsung.

It should work with any decent USB supply. So I think we need to improve our end to handle this variation.

I checked my scope on a 5V supply I built at university and confirmed it does show 5V with that:-)

These are all 'quality' usb supplies - well Apple anyway!

foft wrote:

It should work with any decent USB supply. So I think we need to improve our end to handle this variation.

I checked my scope on a 5V supply I built at university and confirmed it does show 5V with that:-)

I am ok with this. Is an option!

But if you ask my opinion, I would say that the final purpose of eclaireXL, isn't for use as one more generic FPGA development board, to work with any usb outlet. Because of its nature as a complete Atari computer, it must support/supply its peripherals. So to do this correctly, it need to stand ever with a tested and stabilized 5.1volt @ 1 or 2 Amper power supply.

We can use any of the two ways above, but you know very well that with the first way and a hungry sio peripheral, 500mA of standard usb outlet isn't enough! However maybe your way is more economical at the end...

In the next run of boards we are added a variable resistor to allow adjusting the level the paddle detector uses.

For old boards, use a decent PSU!