Re: Supercard

[rg.jones@rogers.com]

Mark McDougall wrote:
> Hi,
>
> If one were to design an all-in-one 'Supercard' for the Apple II, what
> would the desired features be?
>
> I've come up with...
>
> 1. VGA adapter
> 2. Mockingbird clone
> 3. Ethernet adapter
> 4. Memory expansion card
> 5. Z80 card
> 6. Super Serial Card
> 7. Storage (CF/SD)
> 8. Various enhanced graphics boards
> 9. PS/2 or USB interface for keyboard/mouse
>
> Is there anything else on anyone's wish-list?
>

Hi Mark,

I know your thinking in terms of a FPGA solution but another
alternative could be to use something like the Atmel ARM AT91SAM9261

Features

16K byte instruction and 16K byte data cache memories.
160K bytes of SRAM and 32K bytes of ROM
external bus interface with controllers for SDRAM and static memories
including NAND Flash and CompactFlash.

USB Full Speed Host and Device interfaces,
LCD Controller
Multimedia Card Interface (MCI),
Synchronous Serial Controllers (SSC),
USARTs,
Master/Slave Serial Peripheral Interfaces (SPI)
a three-channel 16-bit Timer Counter (TC)
Two Wire Interface (TWI).
Three 32-bit Parallel I/O Controllers (multiplexed)


Seems like this chip ($20 qty 1) could do most of the functions you are
looking for but then again maybe it wouldn't nearly be as much fun
doing it that way ;-)

btw how do you plan to handle phantom slotting all those devices into
the Apple II address space?

Glenn