Homebrew PCBs

This is such a small PCB, one chip, one trans, 2 resistors... I just don't
have a lot of hope for simplification.  Concerns regarding testing and
verification seal this, but THANK YOU! for the suggestions :)

Saltbreez

On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 7:34 PM, javaguy11111 <javaguy11111@...>wrote:

> --- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, Surf Thenet <surf@...> wrote:
> >
> > Hey guys,
> >
> > Anyone play Stargate at the arcades growing up?  The original Stargate
> > arcade boards came with a daughter PCB, a scab used by Williams
> > Electronics to fix a design problem late in production.
> >
> >
> > This shows the daughter board mounted on the main PCB:
> > http://www.robotron-2084.co.uk/jpegs/R8948.jpg
> >
> > So I need one of these daughter boards; they are of course no longer
> > in production.
> >
> > How much of a stretch of the imagination is it to create one of these
> > one sided PCB's from a picture of a real one?
>
> Assuming you have full schematics and everything is simple logic(ie no
> analog) , I wonder if a CPLD might work better. You may be able fit all the
> logic from that board into one chip. You might want to take a look a Xilinx.
> Their fpga/cpld development kit is free and you can get cpld boards from
> digilentinc.com  The development software also has a schematic input mode,
> so you do not have to learn verilog or VHDL to do the programming.
>
> Not meaning to discourage you from building a board, but you may be able to
> take advantage of todays technology to make your job a little easier.
>
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