Re: CFFA Logic version 1.3 CPLD has timing problem... v1.4 in testing

["Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast.net>]

<julian814@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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:
: Rich wrote:
: > To all CFFA users,
: >
: > As many of you know the current version of logic in the CPLD shipping
: is
: > v1.3. This was an update from v1.2 that allowed my card to work in
: the
: > Apple II+ and IIe. It also was suppose to improve overall timing
: > margins.
: >
: > Recently, enough customers are having problems with larger CF cards
: that
: > I decided to investigate a little further. I bought a 256MB SanDisk
: CF
: > card and found that it didn't work at all. To my embarrassment it
: > appears that in making v1.3 I messed up the timing in other areas.
: > Specifically the timing of the latch operation that latches the high
: > byte during a read cycle from the ATA device so the Apple can then
: read
: > the high byte. NOTE: v1.2 CPLD does not have this timing problem.
: >
: > So after more carefully looking at the timing, several key changes
: have
: > been made. These changes will become v1.4 CPLD. After more testing,
: and
: > hopefully some beta testing by others, I will let everyone know.
: >
: > The good news is that now all of the SanDisk and Lexar cards I have
: all
: > appear to work fine. The Lexar cards have never worked for me before.
: >
: > To get this update out to customers, I think I am going to offer two
: > options,
: >
: > A) Send me your CPLD and I will reprogram it and send it back. No
: > charge.
: >
: > B) I will send you a new CPLD at no charge, and you send back your
: old
: > one.
: >
: > The customer pays the shipping to get his chips to me and I will pay
: the
: > shipping to send the return chips.
:
: You already emailed me about this, and if I remember correctly, we
: hammered out an agreement. I appreciate you doing this for me. I can't
: wait to get my GS up and running!

Very glad to hear that it is fixed. I was worried that you would need
to send out the cards in 2 different versions, but this is good news.

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