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Dual SD Card
Introduction
The Dual SD Card board contains two Secure Digital card sockets and interfaces to the ECB bus, meaning it adds SD card storage to several ECB computer systems: SBC v1 & v2, SBC-188, and mini-M68k. (Zeta also?)
The interface is more complete than that on the N8 home computer, in that hot-swapping is better supported with full “card detect” features, as well as implementation of the “write protect” switch on all SD cards. Under software control, an interrupt may be generated whenever a card is inserted or removed. Write protection is purely a software feature of SD cards, but this is the first interface to provide the driver software a status indication of the position of the Lock / WriteProtect switch on each card.
The pad for soldering the SD card socket is designed to accommodate as many varied SD sockets as possible, and special jumpering is used to connect the proper Card Detect and Write Protect pads to the register inputs. The 'doc' directory contains detailed information for over half a dozen different sockets.
Programming is very similar to the N8 2511 board and JUHA interfaces. RomWBW provides driver support for the ECB-DUAL-SD-CARD.
Hardware documentation
Schematic: ecb_dual_sd_101-schematic.pdf
PCB layout: sdcard-printable-layout.gif
File List
Filename
Filesize Last modified dual_sdcard_100.doc 23.5 KiB 2015/11/01 19:03 dual_sdcard_100.pdf 23.0 KiB 2015/11/01 19:03 dual_sdcard_configuration.doc 19.0 KiB 2015/11/01 19:03 dual_sdcard_configuration.pdf 23.4 KiB 2015/11/01 19:03 dual_sdcard_footprint.doc 1013.0 KiB 2015/11/01 19:03 dual_sdcard_footprint.pdf 1.1 MiB 2015/11/01 19:03 ecb_dual_sd-mfg.zip 140.2 KiB 2020/06/22 17:28 ecb_dual_sd_-_bill_of_materials.txt 2.3 KiB 2015/11/01 19:04 ecb_dual_sd_100-schematic-obsolete.pdf 239.2 KiB 2015/11/01 19:03 ecb_dual_sd_100-schematic.pdf 239.2 KiB 2015/11/01 19:03 ecb_dual_sd_101-schematic.pdf 242.3 KiB 2015/11/01 19:04 sbc816rom.zip 1.1 MiB 2017/12/25 17:40 sdcard-assembled.jpg 121.6 KiB 2015/11/01 19:04 sdcard-back.jpg 291.6 KiB 2015/11/01 19:04 sdcard-components.jpg 234.6 KiB 2015/11/01 19:04 sdcard-fci-jumpers.jpg 77.0 KiB 2015/11/01 19:04 sdcard-front.jpg 290.2 KiB 2015/11/01 19:04 sdcard-printable-layout.gif 339.7 KiB 2015/11/01 19:04
