Connector Confusion

December 12, 2018 Hosted by Parker Dillmann, Stephen Kraig

Stephen continues his march into madness with his 20 band EQ amplifier design.

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  • Parker
  • RPI3 Compute Module
    • PCM5122 Routed
    • LAN9514 Routed
    • single upstream USB port on BCM2835
    • Pin 44 Ethernet 25MHz output
    • Pin 31 LAN RESET
    • Information found on the Raspberry pi forum
      • Need to add USB current limiting
      • CM3 HOME
    • Guido Ottaviani made his own carrier board I have been looking at for inspiration to solve some of the final problems
    • Connector being used to socket the RPI3 Compute Module
  • Stephen
  • Crazy EQ amplifier design continuation
    • Opted to go with a card edge solution for each EQ band
    • Each band connects via a 36 pin PCI-Express connector
      • +12V
      • -12V
      • +5v Reference
      • -5V reference
      • Gnd
      • 4 In Signals
      • Cut
      • Boost
      • Potentiometer pin 2
        • 21 modules in total. 1 module has all of the power and main signal in/out from the amp. This sends all of the other modules their power/ground and signals.
        • Need to rethink things – Feedback loops are crappy.. Need to go with a 64 pin solution
      • 20 ins and 20 outs
  • Beveled edges and Hard Gold plating discussion in a future episode
  • R.F.O.
  • Debugging I²C with Hardware
    • I²CDriver is a crowdfunded effort by James Bowman
    • Open Source tool used to easily drive I2C devices
    • Controls with a GUI, command-line, C and C++ using a single source file, or Python 2 and 3, using a module
  • Low Cost Reverse Polarity and Over Current Protection
    • Jeri Ellsworth’s new video on reverse bias protection
    • Has a Robbie Robot on her desk!
    • Methods
      • “One of the options is to do nothing”
      • Diode input
      • Exploding Diode
      • PMOS FET
      • Low rds on – “almost not there”
      • Body Diode – Watch out for this

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Hosts: Parker Dillmann, Stephen Kraig

Special thanks to whixr over at Tymkrs for the intro and outro!